by Donald A. Ritchie Reviewed by Ed Lengel

Reviewed by Heller McAlpin for The Wall Street Journal

Frederick Douglass and Republican legislators had high hopes for Andrew Johnson—but ended up impeaching him. Reviewed by Randall Fuller for...

Reviewed by Ed Lengel

Reviewed by David M. Shribman for The Wall Street Journal

Reviewed by Ed Lengel

Reviewed by Ed Lengel

Pulling Back the Curtain on the Lincolns’ Marriage

The onetime “hidden figure” recounts her extraordinary path from the Jim Crow South to the halls of NASA.

An excellent treatment of her powerful and underappreciated role in American history from 1963-1969.

How Harriet Tubman, Martha Wright and Frances Seward challenged a nation’s conscience.

Originally published in 1935, it grew out of stories that Brink heard from her grandmother about growing up in a...