On the C-SPAN Networks: Abraham Lincoln Book Shop has hosted 12 events in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 2013 Forum. The year with the most events was 2022 with five events. The ...

CHICAGO (CBS)—Chicago's connection to political conventions goes a long way, and a unique bookshop in the city has put together a new exhibit featuring artifacts tied to the Republican National ...

On a Tuesday evening in the nation’s capital, a clock chimes loudly just as Harold Holzer is about to make a point. “There’s Lincoln, echoing,” Holzer says. The quip draws laughs from a crowd packed ...

Jonathan White is a professor of American studies at Christopher Newport University and an author. Historians and the general public regularly rank Abraham Lincoln as America’s greatest president.

1. The author, a Clinton White House adviser, began a multivolume Lincoln biography with this atmospheric, authoritative curtain raiser. It reimagines the roiling political culture in which young ...

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There has been of late a bull market for books about Abraham Lincoln because of the forthcoming bicentennial of his birth, Feb. 12, 1809. This reviewer is not an authority on Lincoln, but ever since ...

Abraham Lincoln's leadership is often remembered for reaching across the aisle – he tried to find compromises even in the most divisive times. But as successful as he was in saving the union, Lincoln ...

Every schoolchild knows that Abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room cabin. Minnesota food historian Rae Katherine Eighmey takes that fact to the next logical point in her seventh book, "Abraham ...

These days, a noisy faction insists on the ardent Christianity of America's past leaders, as well as the supposed obvious compatibility of devout faith and unfettered capitalism. This faction, I'm ...

“The Lincolns had several Bibles in the White House, each in a convenient place so that they could be easily reached by the president. He liked to read the Bible every day when he could, especially ...