Lincoln
Published: 9/4/24
The Abraham Lincoln Book of Quotes (2023)
In "The Abraham Lincoln Book of Quotes," editor Travis Hellstrom presents some of the sixteenth president's "most loved wisdom.”
Published: 6/18/24
Abraham Lincoln and Women in Film (2024)
Abraham Lincoln and Women in Film analyzes “Lincoln the lover—whom he loved and who loved him” and examines “the female characters in Hollywood’s story of the intimate life of Abraham...
Published: 6/5/24
Lincoln & California (2023)
Brian McGinty's "Lincoln and California" will appeal to those interested in the history of the Far West, Abraham Lincoln, or a more holistic understanding of the Civil War era.
Published: 4/1/24
Lincoln’s Imagined West
In the midst of World War II, T.S. Eliot finished a series of poems that were collected in 1943 as Four Quartets. A prominent theme in the last poem, “Little Gidding,” is time and the place of humanity in history. In the penultimate stanza Eliot attests that “to make an end is to make a beginning.
Published: 10/6/23
Lincoln Prize Lecture 2023
On October 26, 2023, The American Civil War Museum (ACWM), in partnership with the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History, will host its first annual Lincoln Prize Lecture, where guests will...
Published: 9/20/23
Lincoln Illuminated and Remembered (2023)
Across a career spanning nearly six decades, historian William C. Harris has produced important books on virtually every facet of the sixteenth president’s life, ranging from his political ascent (Lincoln’s...
Published: 3/22/23
Lincoln: The Fire of Genius (2022)
Plenty of people who study the Civil War have heard accounts of Lincoln testing out the new, breech-loading Spencer repeating rifle behind the Executive Mansion. Was this a one-off event,...
Published: 6/21/22
The Five Best Books on Lincoln and His Commanders
Library of Congress Abraham Lincoln was not a military man, yet in March 1861 he became commander in chief of forces that would soon face the task of suppressing an...
Published: 10/20/21
Lincoln’s Mentors (2021)
Americans, it seems, never tire of reading about Abraham Lincoln. Michael J. Gerhardt adds to the library of books about the sixteenth president with this impressive study of the men...
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Published: 10/19/18
Currier and Ives on Lincoln
During the Civil War, the prominent lithography firm Currier and Ives produced inexpensive prints of the conflict and its participants based on original drawings by some of the country’s leading...