Author and historian Nigel Hamilton, in his latest book, “Lincoln vs. Davis: The War of the Presidents” (Little, Brown and Company, 737 pgs., $38 hardcover) has put together a dual biography ...

In the book Lincoln, the president is shown as a father and a husband. He loved his two young sons, Willie and Tad. Vidal also explored the president’s relationship with his wife, Mary Todd.

Then, on Good Friday 1865, the president made his way to Ford's Theatre. After Lincoln's death and the Civil War, a new kind of religious zealotry ran — and still runs — amok.

Some 16,000 — and counting. That’s how many books have been written about Abraham Lincoln. You might have thought that was enough — until Garry Wills published “Lincoln at Gettysburg” in ...

Book Review: ‘Lincoln’s Peace’ offers lessons for these times from the Civil War Michael Vorenberg’s book shines as a meticulously researched and artistically written examination of how ...

‘Lincoln’s Peace’ Review: The War That Wouldn’t Die Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Elsewhere in the country, parts of the rebel army fought on.

“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.

US President Abraham Lincoln sits for a portrait on February 5, 1865. A new book details how Lincoln's thinking on immigration evolved.

Initially, Vorenberg did not think there was much more to learn about the Civil War or former President Abraham Lincoln. “There are more books written about Abraham Lincoln, I believe, than anyone ...