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Podcast: Author George Saunders on His Novel “Lincoln in the Bardo” About Lincoln After the Death of His Son

A novel about Lincoln was ranked as one of the best books of the 21st Century by the New York Times. Here is the Book…

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Abraham Lincoln Statue at Gettysburg Visitors Center

You would expect Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg and I am sure many readers recall seeing Lincoln downtown in this Civil War city. That statue, which…

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Exeter Town Hall Site of Lincoln’s 1860 Speech Photo Tour

I go up to New Hampshire every four years to observe the New Hampshire Primary first hand. In 2016 I went too the prep school…

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Lincoln and the Effort to Send Freed Slaves to an Island Off of Haiti

The Washington Post has an article this weekend on a disturbing effort to transplant freed slaves to an island off of Haiti and Lincoln’s involvement….

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Abe Lincoln and Frederick Douglass Statues Photo Tour National Harbor, Maryland

Last week I attended a conference at National Harbor in Maryland, just a few miles from Washington, D.C. It is a popular Holiday Season destination…

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How the Civil War and Reconstruction Era Presidents Ranked According to Historians

The C-SPAN ranking of presidents by historians was released half-a-year ago, but it has been getting a lot of attention in the news lately. I…

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Ted Widmer Gives Strong Recommendation of John Avlon’s New Lincoln and the Fight for Peace in WaPo

Ted Widmer, professor at Macaulay Honors College of the City University of New York, has a review in The Washington Post of John Avlon’s new book…

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NY Times Reviews ABE: Abraham Lincoln in His Times by David S. Reynolds

This has been a good month for Abraham Lincoln with two new BIG books out on our most fascinating president. ABE: Abraham Lincoln in His…

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NY Times Reviews New Book John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom by H. W. Brands

The New York Times Book Review reviews the new THE ZEALOT AND THE EMANCIPATOR John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom by…

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NY Times Interviews Edward Achorn, the Author of “Every Drop of Blood: The Momentous Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln.”

In his new book Every Drop of Blood Edward Achorn describes the 24 hours of Lincoln’s Second Inauguration. We all remember Lincoln address that day,…

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