“A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems.

He also became a lawyer by reading and studying on his own. The show features many selections from his reading list. “In many ways, books made Abraham Lincoln,” says Mazy Boroujerdi, ...

Five Best: Books on Abraham Lincoln’s Campaigns Selected by Harold Holzer, the author, most recently of ‘Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration.’ By ...

Before Abraham Lincoln was president, ... Instead, to learn the law, he simply read law books, studying them very carefully before taking the tests to become a lawyer.

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.

The Pekin residents were the first slaves emancipated by Abraham Lincoln. The monument will be officially unveiled Saturday, June 17, 2023 in a public ceremony featuring Illinois Supreme Court ...

Find Your Next Book Thrillers N.Y.C. Literary Guide Nonfiction Summer Preview Advertisement Supported by nonfiction In “Lincoln’s God,” Joshua Zeitz examines the 16th president’s personal ...

As for the book in Lincoln’s hands, it was a prop: a sample catalog found lying around the studio that father and son pretended to be reading. It was all part of Lincoln’s image-making.

Third book in planned five-part series from local author Jan Jacobi, “Lincoln and Douglas” deals with Lincoln's historic debates with rival Stephen A. Douglas.

Often considered our greatest president, Abraham Lincoln (Daniel Day-Lewis in the movie) is definitely written about the most. More than 16,000 books have been published since Lincoln's 1865 ...