Fergus M. Bordewich, Author at The American Scholar

Fergus M. Bordewich

Fergus M. Bordewich’s most recent book is Congress at War: How Republican Reformers Fought the Civil War, Defied Lincoln, Ended Slavery, and Remade America.

Our Founding Contradiction

The entrenched dichotomy at the center of the national story

By Fergus M. Bordewich | Thursday December 1, 2022

Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain

The vitality of big ideas

By Fergus M. Bordewich | Monday November 16, 2015

The Corner

By Fergus M. Bordewich | Monday March 31, 2014

Abolition Gone Wrong

Despite good intentions, some opponents of the Atlantic slave trade caused more harm

By Fergus M. Bordewich | Friday December 6, 2013

True North

Yankees and their slaves

By Fergus M. Bordewich | Monday June 10, 2013

Founding Portraitists

By Fergus M. Bordewich | Sunday March 1, 2009