Author: andrei

The community of Lincoln scholars has lost a titan. The news that David Herbert Donald passed away Sunday (May 17, 2009) at the age of 88 saddens all of us…

Countless books have been written about Abraham Lincoln over the past 150 years, from children’s books, to books about his jokes and stories, and of course serious biographies. A book…

Back in January of this year, I wrote a post about a new series of articles about Abraham Lincoln coming from American History magazine in this, the bicentennial year of…

I’d like to share a personal experience I had today in Columbus, Ohio when I got to visit a mobile exhibit titled “Reflections – The American Funeral Tour.” The purpose…

An exhibition about Abraham Lincoln has opened this past weekend in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at the Senator John Heinz History Center. Titled “Lincoln: The Constitution And The Civil War and Lincoln…

Today marks the 151st anniversary of one of Abraham Lincoln’s most famous speeches. His “House Divided” speech was given on this date in 1858 upon his nomination as the Republican…

The city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is getting ready to celebrate Lincoln’s 200th birthday this Independence Day weekend, July 2 through 5, 2009. Lincoln 200 just might be the biggest of…

By now it’s fairly old news that the environmentalist group Greenpeace staged a protest yesterday about global warming at Mount Rushmore, South Dakota. Members of the organization used rappelling anchors…

The Abraham Lincoln Blog is taking a bit of a break over the next couple of weeks. I’m heading to the country of Turkey tomorrow morning so my wife and…

Today marks the 191st anniversary of the death of Abraham Lincoln’s biological mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln. She died on October 5, 1818, when her two children, Sarah and Abraham, were…