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...
Lincoln and Religion
An Interview with Richard Carwardine
Abraham Lincoln and “the Most Dangerous Man” in Baltimore
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...
An Interview with Ronald C. White
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...
We Mourn Our Fallen Father: Abraham Lincoln’s Easter Sermon and the Beginning of his Martyrdom
We Mourn Our Fallen Father: Abraham Lincoln’s Easter Sermon and the Beginning of his Martyrdom By Kayla Gustafson During his life, Abraham Lincoln bore a myriad of nicknames: the Railsplitter, Honest Abe, Father Abraham, and the Liberator, just to name...
God and Mr. 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.