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. ...

Ken Griffin bought an Abraham Lincoln–signed copy of the 13th Amendment, for $13.7 million, and the Emancipation Proclamation ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

Ever wondered about the origins of the Abraham Lincoln sculpture seated on a bench in downtown Bloomington? Here's a look ...

Before Abraham Lincoln was president, he spent many years as a prairie lawyer out in the frontier state of Illinois, where he decided to study a very old math book ...

Griffin reportedly plans to lend his copies of the Thirteenth Amendment and the Emancipation Proclamation to a US institution ...