Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln is widely revered, while many Americans consider John Brown mad. Yet it was Brown’s strategy that brought slavery to an end.

The danger of President Trump's rhetoric.

Revisionist biographers have given us countless perspectives, from Honest Abe to Killer Lincoln. Is there a version that’s true to his time and attuned to ours?

A comparative look at the U.S. and Peru's emancipation proclamations' nuances in declaring the freedom of enslaved peoples.

The Great Emancipator's character and anti-slavery legacy has been questioned by Black Americans for over a century.

Lincoln protected thousands of acres of California forest and wanted to restore the nation’s battle-ravaged countryside before he was assassinated.

A history of tactile politics.

Reflections from the author of a novel that does not shy away from the question of Lincoln's sexuality.

Why Lincoln’s "one war at a time" doctrine saved the Union.

Former slaves claimed the president came to plantations disguised as a beggar or a peddler, telling them they’d soon be free. 

He fought to remake the center—not yield to it.

One famous image of the president features a body that isn't his.

Fred Kaplan's new book asks why it took Abraham Lincoln so long to embrace emancipation.

During the Great Depression, Americans found solace in history.

Joshua Speed found his BFF in Abraham Lincoln.

After the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln faced the issue of sorting out a nation divided over the issue of freed slaves. But what were his views on it?

Abraham Lincoln fought clinical depression all his life. But what would today be treated as a "character issue" gave Lincoln the tools to save the nation.

In 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln delivered one of the most famous speeches in U.S. history.

For strivers like Lincoln, guides to rhetoric had a special currency in the nineteenth century.

In the summer of 1842, young Abraham Lincoln’s razor-sharp wit almost got him into a whole heap of trouble.