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Normal 0 false false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MAY 4, 1865: “Firm, united let us be / Rallying round our liberty / As a band of brothers joined / Peace and safety we shall find.” --- Hail Columbia I After a last skirmish for the honor...

At the Australian embassy in Washington, DC, last month, I asked Kim Beazley if he had had the chance to indulge his fascination with Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War while serving as Australia’s ambassador to the US. Abraham Lincoln Source:...

Excerpted from Lincoln’s Body: A Cultural History by Richard Wightman Fox, out now from W. W. Norton & Co. When Lincoln breathed his last on Saturday morning, April 15, 1865, his wife was ensconced in the front parlor of the Petersen House. Edwin...

In his new book Lincoln in the Bardo—his first novel—the tricksy, unsettling, masterly short story writer George Saunders has taken a family tragedy—the death of an American President’s child—and set it at the center of a national tragedy: the Civil...

It’s February 12. And we all know what that means. “Time to go buy Valentine candy?” Uh . . . no. It’s Abraham Lincoln’s birthdate. Everyone knows this. Well, maybe not everyone. But for me, Lincoln’s birthday has always been one of the highlights...