When Abraham Lincoln was preparing his speech for his second inaugural in 1865, historians think he cut the sentences and ...

A biography that weighed in at more than a million words is ... and to know more about Mary Todd also becomes a way to understand Abraham Lincoln. Abundant evidence exists of her childish but also ...

Major Acts In practical terms, the achievements of Abraham Lincoln are mammoth, yet simple to describe: he confronted the secession of the South and the dissolution of the Union with all the political ...

On library shelves the multi-volumed biographies by Nicolay and Hay, Sandburg, and Randall and Current stand cover to cover with *Lincoln Never Smoked a Cigarette* and *Abraham Lincoln on the ...

Owing to this apparent singleness of heart and purpose, a biography of Lincoln is the ... towards a life of Abraham Lincoln, will be secure of readers. Originally of Quaker origin and of ...

Michael Burlingame is the author of one of the most definitive biographies on Abraham Lincoln. Here's when he'll be in ...

Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln remains a tragic historical figure, gunned down by an assassin just days after winning the nation's bloodiest war. A Republican ...

The Rothschilds’ Waddesdon Manor: Not Your Typical English Country House It was on the night of Good Friday, April 14, 1865, that John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln. Earlier that day ...

Lincoln had struggled to heal the wounds of war, yet he became one of its last victims, and the war left the country no less divided. Abraham Lincoln grew up on the American frontier. Born in a ...