Abraham Lincoln and Literature In 1849, Abraham Lincoln sought to be federal commissioner of lands. He lost that post and was offered the territorial governorship of Oregon as a consolation prize. Under the influence of his wife Mary, Lincoln turned…

Abraham Lincoln’s Faith Abraham Lincoln and the Bible Abraham Lincoln and Winston S. Churchill were not conventional men.  Their religious faith were not necessarily conventional Christian faiths.  Neither were conventional church goers but they certainly had more than a conventional…

Abraham Lincoln’s Health Thomas Hall Shastid, a young Lincoln contemporary, wrote that Lincoln showed up at his family home one evening as the family anxiously awaited a meal of fresh-killed quails: “Abe sat down at their hearty invitation in the…

Abraham Lincoln’s Beautiful Face President Lincoln’s Moods Abraham Lincoln’s Personality The most enduring photo of Winston Churchill from World War II was a scowling portrait of the prime minister in a three-piece suit. The scowl was produced when the photographer…

Abraham Lincoln and Journalists Abraham Lincoln began his political life as an avid newspaper reader – using his position as a postmaster in rural Illinois to read all the papers that came through his hands. When Lincoln became president in…

Whitelaw Reid enjoyed a distinguished career as editor of the New York Tribune and as U.S. Ambassador to both Paris and London. But in the Civil War, Reid was a young journalist, not yet 30, covering Washington politics and the…