In “Lover of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln” director Shaun Peterson makes a compelling case that Honest Abe was queer. The 102-minute doc features 20 Lincoln scholars and historians and ...

Bobby Poirier and J.B. Waterman depict Capt. David Derickson and Abraham Lincoln in "Lover of Men." (Special Occasion Studios) Debates over Abraham Lincoln's private life have lingered for years, but ...

DURING America’s civil war, in 1862, Abraham Lincoln reportedly began sharing a bed with his bodyguard, a soldier named David Derickson. The tittle-tattle was recorded in the diary of Virginia ...

"I am the most miserable man alive," the future president wrote after his friend (and alleged lover) Joshua Speed moved away, in the documentary 'Lover Of Men' Abraham Lincoln was, by most accounts, ...

Abraham Lincoln embodied everything that’s great about America: He was courageous, compassionate, wise and quite likely gay. “Lover of Men” (in theaters now) is a revealing new documentary that delves ...

Born in a one-room log cabin in Kentucky, Abraham Lincoln rose to the presidency in 1861. Hulton Archive / Getty Images America’s presidential election is still more than a month away. In the meantime ...

A conversation with Harvard Business School professor and historian Nancy Koehn on the power of Lincoln’s emotional discipline. In 1863, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln wrote a scathing letter to his ...

In 1862, Abraham Lincoln held a forum to consider a potential solution to the country’s conflict: What if all free Black people left the U.S. and settled in Central America? The president’s ...