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 ...

If I forget thee,” Abraham Lincoln thought, speaking not at this moment of God’s Law but of the doctrine of the Declaration ...

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 ...

Abraham Lincoln was a politician, though people like to describe him in ways that sound more noble. Contemporaries considered him a Christlike figure who suffered and died so that his nation might ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

August 14, 2024. In 1863, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln wrote a scathing letter to his top Union general, who had squandered an opportunity to end the American Civil War.

A braham Lincoln is well-known for his extraordinary political career. Elected twice by the American public, Lincoln's ...