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Americans who have been living under a large, soundproof rock for the past year or so may be forgiven for not knowing that February marked the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth. The rest of us ...

A politician is up for reelection, holding firm to their moral convictions — however politically unpopular — in the pursuit of preserving an endangered democracy. Sound familiar? A new biography by ...

Harvard history professor Gienapp (The Origins of the Republican Party) devotes a mere 70 pages of his brief new biography to Abraham Lincoln's prepresidential life; in a volume that "synthesizes ...

The other day, in passing, a friend of mine asked me, “Why would someone write yet another biography of Abraham Lincoln? Aren’t there enough already?” I was dumbfounded and mumbled some half-answer.

"Abraham Lincoln" by George S. McGovern (Times Books, $22) Reviewed by DAVID HODO, Special to the Press-Register 2009 marked the 200th birthday of Abraham Lincoln. Much has been written about our most ...

AND THERE WAS LIGHT: ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE AMERICAN STRUGGLE by Jon Meacham, Random House, 676 pages, $40 Every generation gets its own Abraham Lincoln biography. But if time seems to move faster ...

2021-02-18T08:01:09-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/2a2/20210218080212001_hd.jpgHistorian David S. Reynolds discusses his biography of Abraham Lincoln and how he ...

Presidential historian Jon Meacham speaks with NPR about his new biography, And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle. It... Lincoln prioritized democracy over his political ...