As James Buchanan took office in 1857, the United States found itself at a crossroads. Dissolution of the Union had been averted and the Democratic Party mainta
Did the decisions President James Buchanan made - and those he avoided - lead to the American Civil War? Here, in this essay by Pulitzer Prize winner Allan Nevi
Were World Wars I and II inevitable? Were they necessary wars? Or were they products of calamitous failures of judgment? In this monumental and provocative hist