No one loves an archive better than I do. I can smell a good one half-a-block away - all that brittle papyrus dust is music to my nostrils.

- Allen C. Guelzo

I don't know that there has ever been a time when Abraham Lincoln didn't stand head-and-shoulders above all other presidents in the historians' eye. …

- Allen C. Guelzo

I think, a general anxiety, after the end of the Cold War, to find a new basis for affirming American nationhood. And perhaps another, in plainer ter…

- Allen C. Guelzo

Corporations did not achieve the scale we normally associate with them until the 1880s; but it's still hard to imagine that Abraham Lincoln would off…

- Allen C. Guelzo

It is possible to have pardon without forgiveness-a murderer can be pardoned by the governor, but that does not mean the victim's family has forgiven…

- Allen C. Guelzo

We still know so little about how the brain interacts with the body chemistry or, for that matter, whether we should be talking about the brain or th…

- Allen C. Guelzo

The one who pursues revenge should dig two graves.

- Allen C. Guelzo

What Abraham Lincoln had to face was a culturally and politically cohesive bloc of states comprising half the country, refusing to discuss even the l…

- Allen C. Guelzo

Corporate organization in American business and commerce was already well under way by the time Abraham Lincoln became president. But all the evidenc…

- Allen C. Guelzo