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 ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Abraham Lincoln Book Shop has hosted 12 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 2013 Forum. The year with the most events was 2022 with five events. The ...

Jonathan White is a professor of American studies at Christopher Newport University and an author. Historians and the general public regularly rank Abraham Lincoln as America’s greatest president.

AND THERE WAS LIGHT: ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE AMERICAN STRUGGLE by Jon Meacham, Random House, 676 pages, $40 Every generation gets its own Abraham Lincoln biography. But if time seems to move faster ...

Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Meacham has set a high bar for himself in penning yet another biography of one of the most written-about personalities in human history. Most American readers believe they ...

Abraham Lincoln once described his childhood as “the short and simple annals of the poor.” Born in a small log cabin in what was then the western frontier, Lincoln fell in love with books at a young ...

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield is unveiling a new exhibit and book this fall, highlighting Lincoln's life and legacy through a collection of 100 objects. The book, ...

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 ...