Month: November 2017

Searching for all things related to Abraham Lincoln this morning on the web (while I should be working…can you tell I’m bored?), I stumbled upon this adorable life-sized fiberglass bear…

Back on April 11, I published a post titled “Bad Lincoln ‘History'” in which I told about a new Lincoln museum in North Carolina which was established to perpetuate the…

What qualities in Abraham Lincoln made him such an outstanding leader? Why did this man with less than one year of formal education and practically no political experience become such…

Through one of those quirks in history which can never be understood, Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the very same day, February 12, 1809. It must have…

For months now, Barack Obama has been criticized for his refusal to wear an American flag lapel pin. He has been branded unpatriotic and called un-American by right-wing bloggers, media,…

Mr. Lincoln appears to be slightly sad as depicted by this bust located in Burbank, California. If planned budget cuts become reality next year in Illinois, Abe’s 200th birthday celebrations…

Most people have read or heard about Abe Lincoln’s childhood, including how he would walk for many miles to borrow books which were quite scarce in those days on the…

While scanning the news earlier today for articles about Abe, I came across this wonderful story about an Atlantic, Iowa, Abraham Lincoln portrayer. According to the article published in the…

It’s time for another stroll through eBay, looking for Lincolnania. As always, there are currently thousands of items related to Mr. Lincoln on eBay, ranging from the cheap to phenomenally…

This week’s issue of Newsweek contains an op-ed piece from resident writer Anna Quindlen about the need (in her opinion) for our nation’s president to be technologically literate. In other…