Abraham Lincoln Biography: Family, Education, Political Journey and Facts Abraham Lincoln was one of the great American leaders. He was the 16th President of the United States from 1861 to 1865 ...

Every generation gets its own Abraham Lincoln biography. But if time seems to move faster these days, then perhaps it is altogether fitting and proper that our generation should have so many.

Fun fact: Feb. 12, 1809, is the birthdate for both Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin. While we tend to contemplate “The Great Emancipator” as fully formed well before he became the 16t… ...

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Presidential historian Jon Meacham speaks with NPR about his new biography, And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle. It examines Lincoln's actions as well as motivations.

President Abraham Lincoln sits for a portrait on Feb. 5, 1865. (Alexander Gardner/U.S. Library of Congress via Getty Images) New biographies of Abraham Lincoln inevitably invite the question: Why ...

I’ve reviewed Lincoln books and written essays on the 16th U.S. president, and, for several years, I served on the advisory board of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, in ...

Americans who have been living under a large, soundproof rock for the past year or so may be forgiven for not knowing that February marked the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth. The rest of us ...

The limitations of standard biography are visible even in one of the finest single‑volume books on the sixteenth president, David Herbert Donald’s Lincoln. The story Donald tells is by now ...

The writer Carl Sandburg, in his 1926 biography of Abraham Lincoln, made a provocative claim—that the President’s relationship with the Kentucky state representative Joshua Speed held ...