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 16th president, ...

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AND THERE WAS LIGHT: ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE AMERICAN STRUGGLE by Jon Meacham, Random House, 676 pages, $40 Every generation gets its own Abraham Lincoln biography. But if time seems to move faster ...

“Loving Lincoln” encompasses the women he befriended, defended in divorce actions, those who wrote to seek pardons and government offices for their husbands, writers like Ida Tarbell, Ruth Painter ...

*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 past, ...

Abraham Lincoln was an American politician from Kentucky. He was the second presidential candidate of the then-new Republican Party, following John Charles Frémont (1813 - 1890). He served as ...

President Abraham Lincoln sits for a portrait on Feb. 5, 1865. (Alexander Gardner/U.S. Library of Congress via Getty Images) New biographies of Abraham Lincoln inevitably invite the question: Why does ...

Part one. His early years -- Earning a living -- His love affairs -- Legislator -- Mary Todd -- Lawyer and politician -- Congressman -- Family matters -- Returning to politics -- Joining the ...

A politician is up for reelection, holding firm to their moral convictions — however politically unpopular — in the pursuit of preserving an endangered democracy. Sound familiar? A new biography by ...

The short and simple annals of the poor -- Young man on his own -- Frontier legislator: his love affairs -- Courtship and marriage -- Lawyer-politician -- The gentleman from Illinois -- Echoes of ...