Lincoln Lore

LN-0235 Immigration?  Abraham Lincoln?  Absolutely.  Lincoln lived in an era when immigration was as much a controversial matter as it is today.  Between 1840 and 1860 four and a half million newcomers arrived, most of them from Ireland, the German...

U.S. Grant, OC-1406 Sara Gabbard:  Did you find your extensive background in the study of Abraham Lincoln a help in your research on Grant, or was it a distraction? Ron White: At one level, writing three books on Lincoln helped. ...

Sara Gabbard:  In 1858, was there already a precedent for debates between competing candidates for political office? Harold Holzer:  Not much of one, really.  Certainly the 1830 Webster-Hayne debates over the tariff had long been famous nationwide, but these took...

Thomas Lincoln has been the subject of description and judgment since at least 1860 when a political biography of his son Abraham was written. Since then, thousands of books have been written about Abraham with most having brief descriptions of…

In a one-hundred-year-old barn in Cornish, New Hampshire, Augustus Saint-Gaudens reshaped the memory of Abraham Lincoln in sculpture as he spent months turning blocks of clay into the 16th President of the United States. With his 1887 sculpture, Abraham Lincoln:…

On the day in April 1837 that Abraham Lincoln rode into Springfield, Illinois, to set himself up professionally as a lawyer, the American republic was awash in religion. Lincoln, however, was neither swimming nor even bobbing in its current.

The first question people always ask me is, "Why do you paint Lincoln?" It’s never easy to explain a passion. Simply put, I am painting the exact location of America’s soul.

Lincoln Memorial University enrolled its first students in 1898. The University is located deep in the Cumberland Mountains at the approach to the historic Cumberland Gap.

Few artists did more to cement the reigning nineteenth-century image of Abraham Lincoln as “Great Emancipator” than Francis B. Carpenter, whose monumental canvas, The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation Before the Cabinet, won critical acclaim on national tour beginning…

As Lincoln’s law partner, William H. Herndon worked more closely with Lincoln than any other person except his wife. Ostensibly, this afforded Herndon an almost unique intimacy with Lincoln, whom his friends knew to be markedly secretive and unconfiding.

As a nation, do we tend to ignore the history of Reconstruction?

"You may think it was a very little thing, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely believe that I, a poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day. The world seemed…

Indiana’s influence on Abraham Lincoln has long divided historians. What separates them, according to Mark E. Neely, Jr., are two opposing interpretations: the “dunghill” and “chin fly” theses.