Americans have looked to the Declaration of Independence when they sought to remedy contemporary problems and create new ...
Historian Richard Hofstadter was a well-known progressive, but his take on Abraham Lincoln certainly differs from the ...
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How Abraham Lincoln Became a True Commander in Chief

Abraham Lincoln served as Commander in Chief during the nation’s darkest hour, guiding the Union through the Civil War with ...
Stowed secretly in Lincoln's pocket. We dig into the family story of a secret message etched inside Abraham Lincoln's pocket ...
With a national day of “Thanksgiving,” Lincoln created a kind of secular sabbath, a day for the country to find gratitude and ...
Confederate myths are confronted as John Dunphy pushes back with facts ...
"I am naturally anti-slavery" : young Abraham Lincoln and slavery -- "Always a Whig" : Lincoln, the law, and the second party system -- "The monstrous injustice ...
The sculptor of Mount Rushmore also sculpted a Confederate memorial on Stone Mountain in Georgia, which honors defenders of ...
The idea for a national Thanksgiving holiday was not Lincoln’s own. It came from Sarah Josepha Hale, among the most ...
This Thanksgiving, we can be thankful for Sarah Hale, the 34-year-old widow who advocated for a permanent holiday, and for President Lincoln, who said yes.
Research shows most American presidents fade from collective memory within 50 to 100 years, explaining why even Vice ...
Former congressman Chris Gibson’s The Spirit of Philadelphia argues that recovering a lost “common sense realism” may be the ...