Abraham Lincoln is perhaps the most remarkable example of this class that we have seen—a man who was at home and ... the backdrop of Oliver Cromwell versus Charles I; Daniel Boone; the ...

Thalian Hall had a date with destiny this week as it found itself playing the role of Ford's Theatre for a new documentary chronicling the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's ...

The statue of Abraham Lincoln, which sits facing the Capitol in a temple two miles away, will not give two thumbs up. Neither will it weep, commune with the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr. or ...

President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address on Nov. 19, 1863. Painting by Fletcher C. Ransom. ... Against the backdrop of a wildly tumultuous year in American history, ...

Lincoln Memorial, the Parthenon-inspired tribute to Abraham Lincoln, has become a symbol of America’s democratic beliefs and principles since its dedication in 1922, drawing millions of visitors ...

There was a time in the 1960s and ’70s when the term “Uncle Tom” was one of the most biting insults one African-American could aim at another. But it bears remembering that Harriet Beecher ...

Central Virginia is again the backdrop for a film focusing on President Abraham Lincoln. Lighting and production trucks were lined up Tuesday along a section of a busy downtown street in Richmond ...

A nation divided. Panic in the streets. Mounting fears that the troubled republic wouldn’t survive. Though Jonathan Putnam’s Lincoln and Speed novels are set in the tumultuous years that would ...

Unless you’re a professional historian, your idea of Honest Abe is likely an assortment of vague notions, clichés, and misattributions. Intiman’s production of Robert Sherwood’s Abe Lincoln ...