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A new exhibition—“Abraham Lincoln: His Life in Print”—opened this week at the Grolier Club in New York City. Using books, documents and ephemera, the show follows Lincoln’s rise from a ...
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.
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 ...
Before Abraham Lincoln was president, he spent many years as a prairie lawyer out in the frontier state of Illinois, where he decided to study a very old math book Lessons learned from Abraham ...
He describes Lincoln's character, humor, and the significance of his life, drawing parallels between Lincoln and the natural elements like mountains, seas, and stars.
A book that gave me a good overview and deeper understanding of Lincoln was the coffeetable book Life, Lincoln: An Intimate Portrait, released to commemorate Lincoln’s 150th death anniversary.
My first book in this series was about how Thomas Edison was saved by his mother. This one is about how Abraham Lincoln was saved by his son — and they left us a holiday tradition to commemorate it.
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.
Explore Abraham Lincoln’s Life and Legacy Through Rare Copies of Historic Books and Documents A new exhibition in New York City uses more than 200 texts and artifacts to contemplate Lincoln’s ...
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 ...