Columnist Charita Goshay writes that a new statue of Abraham Lincoln in Salem reminds us of the promise and power of the American presidency.

The only photograph of Abraham Lincoln in death almost never survived. When the assassinated president was laid out in his coffin in the rotunda of New ... a daguerreotype photo of the solemn ...

For all his modesty and wartime preoccupation, the 16th president was one of the most photographed men of his time, with a ...