“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.

The president’s iconic beard was a product of the anxious new realities of the photographic age.

He quotes Abraham Lincoln on his opposition to the decision in Dred Scott (1857), which he vowed at the time to reverse through legal means. But Lincoln was referring to a decision from the ...

Neil Steinberg/Sun-Times Share Walt Whitman ... “What is more beautiful than candor?” In his travels around Washington, D.C., Whitman sometimes saw Abraham Lincoln — they’d nod to each ...

effect” as questions around Abraham Lincoln ... had a habit of sharing his bed with other men. But a few years before we first saw Escola rock Mary Todd Lincoln’s bratty curl on stage ...

(AP) — Before his famous debates, before the Civil War rent the nation, before he helped end slavery and before his tragic assassination, Abraham Lincoln ... than a century, Times Union ...

before he helped end slavery and before his tragic assassination, Abraham Lincoln had New Salem. The tiny central Illinois village, where Lincoln accidentally spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s ...

"LINCOLN'S PEACE: THE STRUGGLE TO END THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR" by Michael Vorenberg (Alfred A. Knopf, 438 pages, $35). Abraham Lincoln wanted peace, for the war to end. He expressed his desire to ...

Abraham Lincoln wanted ... (Note to Knopf: Take his advice next time.) Without dwelling on it, "Lincoln’s Peace" mentions multiple times another failure during the Civil War that reverberates ...