Fergus M. Bordewich

Fergus M. Bordewich is the author of Congress at War: How Republican Reformers Fought the Civil War, Defied Lincoln, Ended Slavery, and remade America

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America's First Epidemic Changed the Country

Americans never saw it coming. Hardly anyone in Philadelphia, the nation’s temporary capital, noticed the first to die in the summer of 1793, a few weeks after the celebration of Independence Day: a few foreigners,...

By Fergus M. Bordewich

Congresss Has Always Been Partisan

In the throes of the worst crisis in American history, the Civil War, Democrats in Congress repeatedly attacked Abraham Lincoln as a “tyrant” and even his fellow Republicans questioned his competence and investigated his generals....

By Fergus M. Bordewich

What Today’s Congress Can Learn From the First Congress

'Public faith in our democratic institutions is more important than any single issue'

By Fergus M. Bordewich
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