Month: November 2017

Much has been made in the past week of Barack Obama’s “Lincoln Moment” speech he gave in Philadelphia after the firestorm of controversy raised by his former pastor’s (Jeremiah Wright)…

One of the things I most like about being an Abraham Lincoln blogger is that I come across some weird items which fascinate me, and at least hopefully hold the…

The long-running fight between the state of Illinois and various contractors over cost overruns at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum has finally been settled. The total project, including…

In recent posts, I’ve been covering the upcoming closure of the famed Lincoln Museum in Fort Wayne, Indiana, scheduled for June 30. The museum serves as a repository of priceless…

Back on March 13, 2008 I reported the story about the letter Abraham Lincoln wrote to schoolchildren in Massachusetts in response to their petition for him to end slavery. The…

Today marks the 40th Anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. which occurred April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee. Dr. King had been in Memphis…

Bad history is all around us, as documented in the book “Lies Across America” by James W. Loewen. Examples include a small town in Texas which claims that it’s the…

With the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth less than a year away, it seems as if everyone is “thinkin‘ Lincoln” these days. Candidates fall over themselves comparing themselves to Lincoln,…

History tells us that John Wilkes Booth, the young actor who assassinated Abraham Lincoln, was cornered in a barn near Port Royal, Virginia, and was shot to death on April…

The Homestead Act of 1862 was signed into law 146 years ago today, May 20, 1862, by president Abraham Lincoln. The law which went into effect on January 1, 1863…