Allen C. Guelzo

While American history spans not much more than two centuries, it is filled with a wealth of leaders, wars, movements, inventions, and ideas....

Get the real story on the battle for American independence with Professor Guelzo's 24 gripping lectures....

Discover Lincoln as a man who envisioned a nation of self-governing equals wise enough to be guided not just by self-interest, but by an abiding sense of right and wrong....

These 24 intriguing lectures introduce you to the seminal thinking of historians. Explore the idea of written history as it has shaped humanity's story over 2,000 years....

This unique intellectual portrait explores the role of ideas in Lincoln’s life....

Award-winning Lincoln authority Allen C. Guelzo offers a penetrating look into the mind of one of our greatest presidents....

An intimate study of Abraham Lincoln’s powerful vision of democracy, which guided him through the Civil War and is still relevant today—by a best-selling historian and three-time winner of the Lincoln Prize *Winner of the 2024 Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Prize* *Finalist for the 2025...

Today, the US Constitution is the oldest, continually-operating instrument of government in the world....

Redeeming the Great Emancipator enumerates Lincoln's antislavery credentials, showing that a deeply held belief in the God-given rights of all people steeled the president in his commitment....

Now, with this unique collection of 36 lectures from our extensive course catalog, meet the remarkable people without whom the world would never be the same....

The Battle of Gettysburg - the turning point of the American Civil War - would, in the words of one staff officer, stand “like Waterloo, conspicuous in the history of all ages"....

In this course, you will delve deeply into the philosophical underpinnings of the nation, forged by the Puritans and the leaders of the American Revolution....

In Fateful Lightning, two-time Lincoln Prize-winning historian Allen C. Guelzo offers a marvelous portrait of the Civil War and its era....

From the acclaimed Civil War historian, a brilliant new history—the most intimate and richly readable account we have had—of the climactic three-day battle of Gettysburg (July 1–3, 1863), which draws the reader into the heat, smoke, and grime of Gettysburg alongside the ordinary soldier...

The era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. Reconstruction suffered from poor leadership and uncertainty of direction, but it also laid the groundwork for renewed struggles for racial equality during the civil rights movement....

The Reconstruction era is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civil War but in little else. Among its chief failures was the inability to chart a progressive course for race relations after slavery was abolished....

A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR From the award-winning historian and best-selling author of Gettysburg comes the definitive biography of Robert E. Lee. An intimate look at the Confederate general in all his complexity—his hypocrisy and courage, his inner turmoil and outward...

Powerful, haunting, and unforgettable, this remarkable gathering of original documents, including never-before-published letters and papers, creates a day-by-day eyewitness account of the monumental collision at Gettysburg, in the words of the commanders, soldiers, politicians, and civilians.