Sean Wilentz

The best historians in the land consider examples of great leadership, well known and surprising, from Washington to Willkie and more....

In the autumn of 1834, New York City was awash with rumors of a strange religious cult operating nearby, centered around a mysterious, self-styled prophet named Matthias....

Historian Sean Wilentz presents two key insights that together reveal a clearer, much-needed vision of American political history....

A grand political history in a fresh new style of how the elitist young American republic became a rough-and-tumble democracy....

Americans revere the Constitution even as they argue fiercely over its original toleration of slavery. Some historians have charged that slaveholders actually enshrined human bondage. The acclaimed historian Sean Wilentz shares the dismay but sees the Constitution and slavery differently....

In this remarkable collection, ten premier scholars of nineteenth-century America address the epochal impact of the Civil War by examining the conflict in terms of three Americas....