It’s been nearly 160 years since the last summer Abraham Lincoln spent living in this 34-room Gothic Revival home. Now, the building houses a nonprofit known as President Lincoln’s Cottage .

At Abraham Lincoln’s Cottage, ... entering the rural-gothic-style cottage where the 16th president of the United States wrote the Emancipation Proclamation proves to be profoundly moving.

If Abraham Lincoln still matters to Americans in the 21st century—and he does—a major reason is that there’s much at stake politically in how we remember him.