“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.

When I finished reading the preface to Stacy Lynn's Loving Lincoln: A Personal History of the Women Who Shaped Lincoln's Life ...

Please don’t say, “Not another Lincoln book!” It seems as though 12-15 new books about Abraham Lincoln hit the market each year, with another dozen volumes featuring George Washington.

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 ...

Abraham Lincoln was on a losing streak. He wasn’t the party’s favorite. But he made history nevertheless.