In 1831, Abraham Lincoln arrived at the New Salem grist mill along the Sangamon River aboard a flatboat that was sinking. ... “This site, where (Lincoln’s) whole political career began, ...

By the time Lincoln rose to prominence in the 1850s, even Americans were ready for the Romantic notes in his song. He did not let them down. In the mature phase of his political poetry, which ...

A writer rethinks queer history through Abraham Lincoln’s political ambitions, but needs a few present-day edits. By Chris Azzopardi . Science, Politics and Anxiety Mix at Rally Under Lincoln ...

By the time Lincoln left the town in 1837, he was a state legislator and his political career was taking off. While New Salem was essentially abandoned in the years after Lincoln departed for ...

Presidential historian Jon Meacham speaks with NPR about his new biography, And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle. It examines Lincoln's actions as well as motivations.

Author and political insider Sidney Blumenthal, who has been at work for more than a decade on a five-volume biography on Abraham Lincoln, will headline the Abraham Lincoln Association Birthday ...

Abraham Lincoln, Supermodel For all his modesty and wartime preoccupation, the 16th president was one of the most photographed men of his time, with a canny sense of the political power of images. By ...