George B. McClellan McClellan’s Headquarters George B. McClellan Abraham Lincoln and George B. McClellan Both President Lincoln and Prime Minister Winston Churchill had a remarkable capacity to grasp the complexity of war, but even they needed to work through subordinates…

Stephen A. Douglas Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas and Their Friend John Calhoun When on May 8-9, 1940, a pivotal debate was held in the House of Commons, First Lord of the Admiralty Winston…

Abraham Lincoln and Foreign Affairs Winning the Civil War required the United States to keep Britain out of the war. Winning World War II required Britain to bring America into the war as the dominant partner. Those challenges shaped the…

Orville H. Browning (Mr. Lincoln’s White House) Orville H. Browning (Mr. Lincoln & Friends) Leaders need friends. Sometimes those friends are not the ones that their other friends would have chosen for them. For Abraham Lincoln, attorneys Mark W. Delahay…

Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill presented sharply different profiles in their handling of their own personal finances. Lincoln started with far fewer resources but he also suffered serious economic setbacks as a young man in New Salem, Illinois, where he…

Security at Mr. Lincoln’s White House “I see hundreds of strangers every day, and if anybody has the disposition to kill me he will find the opportunity,” said President Abraham Lincoln to aide John Nicolay. “To be absolutely safe I…

Abraham Lincoln and William H. Seward William H. Seward (Mr. Lincoln & Friends) William H. Seward (Mr. Lincoln & New York) In their direction of the Civil War and World War II, Abraham Lincoln and Winston S. Churchill had two…

Abraham Lincoln and Sons Winston and Clementine Churchill had five children – one of whom died before the age of three. Their only son Randolph served honorably and bravely in World War II as a British commando in the Balkans,…

Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill were firemen in a world which seemed to be burning all around them. “I expect to maintain this contest until successful or till I die, or am conquered, or…

Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln Mary Todd Lincoln Abraham Lincoln was a principled realist. There is a pragmatism even to Lincoln’s selection of a wife. The future president’s ambition was reflected in his courtship. He was not satisfied to…