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. ...

abraham lincoln grant (Wikimedia Commons) The Peacemakers . In less than two centuries, about 15,000 books have been written on Abraham Lincoln and his presidency.. Trying to weed through the ...

In less than two centuries, about 15,000 books have been written on Abraham Lincoln and his presidency. Trying to weed through the options in order to figure out which ones are actually worth ...

Two years ago, Paul Tetreault, director of Ford’s Theater in Washington, declared that there are more books written about Abraham Lincoln than any other person than Jesus Christ. The estimate ...

Eric Foner, a professor of history at Columbia University and author of The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery, recommends Donald's book as the best one-volume account of Lincoln's ...

Abraham Lincoln loved kittens and smelled of wood smoke; he recited Shakespeare and told dirty jokes; he used “compromise and cunning and occasional cruelty,” as Adam Gopnik once put it, to ...

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.

Samuel Wheeler gave a tour of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum's vault and showed some of the books that made up the 16th president's personal book collection. The program ...

New book explores whether Abraham Lincoln was gay By . Mackenzie Dawson. Published April 20, 2019. Updated April 20, 2019, 4:15 p.m. ET. Abraham Lincoln and close pal Joshua Speed.

In his book, Jon Meacham aims to recraft a usable mythology of Abraham Lincoln for leaders in the 21st century, when dissension and talk of civil war have returned. (Salwan Georges/The Washington ...

1. This is still the best book on the Lincolns’ marriage, notwithstanding much new information that has come to light since its publication. W.A. Evans, a pathologist by training, conducted ...