Fun fact: Feb. 12, 1809, is the birthdate for both Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin. While we tend to contemplate “The Great Emancipator” as fully formed well before he became the 16t… ...

Seward was an even more ardent foe of slavery than Lincoln. When the Fugitive Slave Act was being debated in 1850, he delivered an impassioned, if futile, three-hour speech on the Senate floor.

Ronald White talked about [A. Lincoln: A Biography] (Random House; January 13, 2009). In the book he recounts the life of Abraham Lincoln and adds to the former president's biography via his ...

Historian David S. Reynolds discusses his biography of Abraham Lincoln and how he unified the country after a divisive election. Report Video Issue Go to Live Event Javascript must be enabled in ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. "Has the Lincoln theme been exhausted?" Witnessing the outpouring of books on Abraham Lincoln this year and in the recent ...

Presidential historian Jon Meacham speaks with NPR about his new biography, And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle. It examines Lincoln's actions as well as motivations.

I was born in 1949 and grew up in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Abraham Lincoln of my high school years was the mythic, heroic figure described in the books of Carl Sandburg an… ...

Historian David Reynolds provided a biography of Abraham Lincoln and looked at how societal influences impacted his life… April 14, 2015 Open Phones with David Reynolds ...