Jonathan White

An Interview with Jan Jacobi by Jonathan White For fifty years, Jan Jacobi served as middle school head and taught English at three schools in St. Louis. He developed his interest in Abraham Lincoln by taking his students on field...

A New Letter from William H. Herndon to Abraham Lincoln by Jonathan W. White   On September 6, 1883, the Illinois State Journal ran an article describing how Lincoln’s third and final law partner, William H. Herndon, had tried to...

An Interview with Louis P. Masur by Jonathan White   Louis Masur is Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of American Studies and History at Rutgers University. He is a cultural historian whose publications include books on Lincoln and the Civil...

“Fixed Upon My Imagination”: Abraham Lincoln and Washington’s Crossing by Jonathan W. White   As a young boy in Indiana, Abraham Lincoln read at least two biographies of George Washington. When he was about fourteen years old, he borrowed a...

An Interview with Lucas E. Morel by Johnathan W. White Lucas E. Morel is the John K. Boardman Jr. Professor of Politics and head of the Politics Department at Washington and Lee University. He is the author of Lincoln and the American Founding (2020)...

Callie Hawkins is the CEO and Executive Director of President Lincoln’s Cottage in Washington, D.C., where she previously served as Director of Programming. She is responsible for innovative leadership of the national monument and for providing overall direction for all…

An Interview with Jon Grinspan by Jonathan W. White Jon Grinspan is Curator of Political History at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. His work explores the history of American democracy, with a focus on ways the formative, forgotten...

An Interview with Richard Carwardine by Jonathan W. White   Richard Carwardine is Emeritus Rhodes Professor of American History at Oxford University and former president of Corpus Christi College at Oxford University. His research focuses on the United States between...

Ann Rutledge’s Resting Places by Jonathan W. White   When she died in 1835, Ann Rutledge was buried in New Concord, Illinois, about six miles north of New Salem. In 1890, one newspaper reported that the “remains of the emancipator’s...

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,...

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...

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...

An Interview with Gerald J. Prokopowicz Jonathan W. White Gerald J. Prokopowicz is professor of history at East Carolina University and a longtime member of The Lincoln Forum Advisory Board. A highly sought-after public speaker and battlefield tour guide, Prokopowicz...

An Interview with Jonathan W. White by Sara Gabbard   Sara Gabbard: Please describe the Center for American Studies at Christopher Newport University. Jonathan White: The Center for American Studies is a group of faculty on campus who seek to...