Observer welcomes Louis Masur who writes and lectures about a range of topics including Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, the Founding Fathers, visual culture, and the history of Rock and Roll.

In the second Learning Activity, students will discuss different reasons for writing letters and review some of Abraham Lincoln’s letters. In the Culminating Activity, students will write their ...

Major Acts In practical terms, the achievements of Abraham Lincoln are mammoth, yet simple to describe: he confronted the secession of the South and the dissolution of the Union with all the political ...

President Lincoln, regarded by historians as one of the best presidents in history, was born on this day in 1809. He is frequently invoked by Trump.

Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.

Abraham Lincoln is widely considered one of the United ... and was instrumental in the writing and passage of the 13 th Amendment of the Constitution, which outlawed slavery in America.

What did Abraham Lincoln sound like ... Sam Waterston reading Lincoln’s writing in a dignified baritone in Ken Burns’ classic documentary The Civil War is one example. Daniel Day-Lewis ...

Abraham Lincoln embodied everything that’s great ... Lincoln and Mary having this fractured marriage. People are fine writing ...