His moral clarity, his extraordinary gifts with language, his decisive role in preserving the Union and what some consider his ultimate martyrdom combine to make of Lincoln a myth ...
The historical fiction “Courting Mr. Lincoln” focuses on the relationship between Abraham Lincoln and his future wife, Mary Todd — as well as his best friend, Joshua Speed, with whom he shared a bed ...
1. The author, a Clinton White House adviser, began a multivolume Lincoln biography with this atmospheric, authoritative curtain raiser. It reimagines the roiling political culture in which young ...
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1. This is still the best book on the Lincolns’ marriage, notwithstanding much new information that has come to light since its publication. W.A. Evans, a pathologist by training, conducted extensive ...
All over America tonight, parents worry, rightly worry that their children are so easily vulnerable to pornography on the Internet. But in school in the bright light of day, we hand our children ...
The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln by a failed actor named John Wilkes Booth is a tragedy ingrained in the minds of most Americans. "To be sworn in as the 16th president, Abraham Lincoln ...
In 1863 the Confederate Army was “flushed with victory.” Throughout the summer of that year, the Union had been taking brutal losses. The cost in human lives was high. “Sometimes it looked,” Elizabeth ...
Abraham Lincoln did not spend much time in Chicago, but the time he did spend here was important. He debated Stephen A. Douglas here and won the Republican nomination for the presidency. He planned to ...
"Old Abe" author John Cribb told "Fox & Friends" on Thursday that ads promoting his historical novel about Abraham Lincoln have been rejected by Facebook, calling the decision "absurd." Cribb noted ...