Lincoln Lore

                      Book Review Getting Right With Lincoln: Correcting Misconceptions About Our Greatest President by Edward Steers Jr. Lincoln Illuminated and Remembered by William C. Harris Review by Jason Emerson   There’s...

James G. Randall and the Revisionists: The Great War, the Good War, and the Civil War By Robert L. Dietle                       September 10, 1945 Mr. Darryl F. Zanuck 20th Century-Fox...

Book Review: Delivered Under Fire: Absalom Markland and Freedom’s Mail by Candice Shy Hooper Review by Frank W. Garmon Jr.   Although Absalom H. Markland is an unknown figure in the twenty-first century, his life intersected with many of the leading...

Review Essay: Law and Order in Lincoln’s America Mark S. Schantz   Writing in The American Historical Review in October 1972, historian Philip Shaw Paludan reflected on the forces that propelled the United States into civil war. It was easy...

Abraham Lincoln and “the Most Dangerous Man” in Baltimore Sean A. Scott   Francis Lister Hawks was a distinguished clergyman and man of letters whose southern sympathies during the Civil War brought him to the attention of Abraham Lincoln. Born...

“To Appreciate the Relation…to the Defence of Washington”: Lincoln and the Shenandoah Valley in 1864 Jonathan A. Noyalas   As Confederate general Jubal Early’s Army of the Valley withdrew from its position in front of Fort Stevens on Washington, D.C.’s...

Jessie Cortesi & Jane Gastineau - Upon President Abraham’s Lincoln death on April 15, 1865, the nation turned from celebrations for Union victory to mourning for their fallen chief. Immediately, the nation’s manufacturers turned to supplying the public’s demand for…

An Interview with Kate Masur Jonathan W. White Kate Masur is the Board of Visitors Professor in History at Northwestern University. She is the author or editor of several books, including Until Justice Be Done: America’s First Civil Rights Movement,...

The Biblical Texts in Memorial Sermons for Abraham Lincoln Mark Noll   In the wake of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, churches and synagogues became the most prominent sites for the nation’s most fervent memorials to the slain president. Usually the centerpiece...

An Interview with Harold Holzer Jonathan White Harold Holzer is the Jonathan F. Fanton Director of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College in New York City. The author or editor of 56 books, he won the Gilder...

From the Collection: CHRISTMAS WITH THE LINCOLN FINANCIAL FOUNDATION COLLECTION Jessie Cortesi   For Americans, there was little “peace on earth” on the Christmases of 1861–1864. But even as the Civil War raged, the holiday was celebrated in soldiers’ camps...

ALFRED ZACHER: A Profile of a Lifetime of Service Tim Harmon Al Zacher, who literally wrote the book on the challenges of the second terms of U.S. presidents, has been particularly fascinated by how Abraham Lincoln was preparing for his....

Lincoln and McClellan: SET IN STONE? George C. Rable Mention George B. McClellan to students of the American Civil War, and the response is predictable. They know McClellan as a foil to Lincoln who might be able to organize an...

An Interview with Ronald C. White Jonathan W. White Ronald C. White is the New York Times bestselling author of two presidential biographies: A. Lincoln: A Biography (2009) and American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant (2016). He is...

  A TUB TO THE WHALE: Lincoln’s 1862 Colonization Speech to African Americans & the “Lullaby Thesis” Michael Burlingame Critics of Lincoln’s August 14, 1862, meeting with five leading Black Washingtonians reject the “lullaby thesis” that the president’s “conspicuous advocacy of...