So credit goes to Allen Guelzo to even attempt to bridge that with his Robert E. Lee: A Life. Guelzo admits his bias right off the bat. He is a northerner and trained to regard Lee as a traitor.

Allen C. Guelzo is the Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Research Scholar and the director of the Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship at Princeton University’s James Madison Program in American ...

On this episode, we play an interview featuring well-known historian, scholar, and Heritage fellow Dr. Allen Guelzo. It encapsulates why Independence Day is so important, and gives meaningful ...

In the words of Arthur Herman, “Common Sense Realism was virtually the official creed of the American Republic…” As historian Allen Guelzo explained in “The American Mind,” his ...

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Noting that “Americans of the Civil War years enjoyed unprecedented levels of literacy and did not hesitate to record what they had seen, heard, and done in a flood of letters, diaries, and memoirs,” ...