We know a lot about Abraham Lincoln, but who was Vinnie Ream, the teenager who sculpted him for the U.S. Capitol Rotunda?

In “Born Equal,” Akhil Reed Amar paints a sprawling portrait of 19th-century America in thrall to its founding moment.

In correspondence with a passionate abolitionist in London, the great American orator didn't hold back when talking about the ...

In our era, they might seem like performative gestures for the president. A quiet visit with the wife of a wounded soldier. A conversation with a battlefield nurse or a kitchen worker. A hand extended ...

This new volume focuses on how the best minds of the “Second Founding” generation saved the Union and improved the Constitution. Mr. Amar continues his documentary approach, filling his book with the ...