Abraham Lincoln

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.

As the Supreme Court invents a law to negate all others, Chief Justice John Roberts now ranks just below Roger Taney.

Historian Manisha Sinha argues that the Second Republic lasted decades longer than most histories state and achieved wider gains.

The images, diaries, and ephemera in Grand Valley State University’s Civil War and Slavery Collection reveal the cold realities of Abraham Lincoln’s world.

"I was always working on a theory of America."

The risks of calling on politicians to push back against the court must be weighed against the present reality of a malign judicial dictatorship.

You can thank Eric Voegelin for the right’s clichéd catchall critique for the left.

The untold story of the Wide Awakes, the young Americans who took up the torch for their antislavery cause and stirred the nation.