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....

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 calm, his disloyalty and his honor....

The most intimate and richly readable account we have had–of the climactic three-day battle of Gettysburg (July 1–3, 1863)....

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

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....

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

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....