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Abraham Lincoln

July 2024

  • Cole Escola in Oh, Mary!

    Oh, Mary! review – Cole Escola’s gloriously deranged historical romp

    A wild and wildly anachronistic comedy takes the life of Mary Todd Lincoln and embellishes with excess

June 2024

  • A diminutive Donald Trump on the Lincoln Memorial with a sign saying 'guilty'.

    Observer comment cartoon
    Chris Riddell on Donald Trump trying, and failing, to fill Abraham Lincoln’s boots – cartoon

    The former US president, convicted on 34 counts, pales into insignificance beside the former great

May 2024

  • old photo of a man in a cape in a gold frame

    Wide Awakes: the young Americans who marched the north to civil war

    Smithsonian curator Jon Grinspan discusses his dramatic new book about a spontaneous movement that helped elect Abraham Lincoln

March 2024

  • The last photograph of Abraham Lincoln, taken in April 1865.

    ‘Lincoln had something to say’: historians ponder lessons for the age of Trump

    NPR host Steve Inskeep joins other authors of books on the 16th president at annual Ford’s Theatre symposium
  • Tobias Menzies as Edwin Stanton, on the trail of assassin John Wilkes Booth in Manhunt.

    Observer TV reviews
    The week in TV: Manhunt; Accused: The Hampstead Paedophile Hoax; The Dry; Is University Really Worth It? – review

    Abraham Lincoln’s killer flees justice in a ponderous drama; four mothers fight back in a chilling sex crime hoax doc. Plus, the welcome return of Irish comedy drama The Dry, and degrees get the third degree
  • Lili Taylor and Hamish Linklater as the Lincolns in Manhunt.

    Manhunt review – almost as exhausting as tracking down Abraham Lincoln’s killer yourself

    This historical drama about the search for the US president’s assassin takes itself very seriously indeed. But the astonishing performances make it all worthwhile

February 2024

  • COMBO-US-POLITICS-VOTE-BIDEN-TRUMP<br>(COMBO) This combination of pictures created on February 17, 2024 shows US President Joe Biden waves from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, on June 1, 2023 and US President Donald Trump waves to the media outside the White House on January 12, 2021 in Washington, DC. Biden versus Trump: The lineup in the 2024 US election has long been a foregone conclusion, with a rematch between the two presidents appearing all but certain. But what would happen if, for any number of reasons, one of the two contenders does not end up taking part in the November vote? (Photo by Jim WATSON and Brendan Smialowski / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSONBRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

    Trump ranked as worst US president in history, with Biden 14th greatest

  • US President Joe Biden urges Congress to pass immigration and foreign aid bill<br>epa11132146 US President Joe Biden delivers remarks urging Congress to pass the Emergency National Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, in front of a portrait of the sixteenth US President Abraham Lincoln, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 06 February 2024. The 118 billion USD immigration and foreign aid bill is the result of months of bipartisan negotiations to increase US border security and provide aid to Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and others. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has called the bill ‘dead on arrival’ in the House as many House Republicans rally around former US President Donald J. Trump’s opposition to the bill. EPA/MICHAEL REYNOLDS

    Joe Biden’s great-great-grandfather was pardoned by Abraham Lincoln

  • An original document signed by President Abraham Lincoln four days before his assassination on 15 April 1865. This document was recently discovered in an antique desk, where it had been kept by the family of the previous owner for decades. Scholars did not know that this original had survived. It is valued at $45,000.

    ‘A new find’: one of last documents Abraham Lincoln signed goes on sale

  • Abraham Lincoln

    ‘Blood of our blood’: how Lincoln, the first Republican president, embraced immigration

January 2024

  • Soldiers in a trench during the first world war

    Brief letters
    A skirt served my grandfather well in the first world war

    Brief letters: Men in skirts | Government priorities | The misery of January | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Give pants a chance

December 2023

  • Liz Cheney, then a congresswoman from Wyoming, testifies before the House rules committee in December 2021.

    Liz Cheney read my book: a historian, Lincoln and the lessons of January 6

    In 1861, an inauguration took place in a crisis. History was set to repeat itself in 2021 – but one Republican had done her research

November 2023

  • President Lincoln's Cottage, in Washington DC.

    ‘The Lincoln shiver’: a visit to the Soldiers’ Home, a less-known Washington gem

  • Former Trump adviser Bannon in Manhattan court on border wall scheme charges<br>NEW YORK, US - JANUARY 12: Former US President Donald Trump's adviser Steve Bannon, who stands accused of fraud over funds raised to support the construction of US-Mexico border wall, attends a hearing in Manhattan, New York on January 12, 2023. (Photo by Fatih Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

    Bannon used Confederate code words to describe Trump speech, book says

July 2023

  • Portrait of Abraham Lincoln by the photographer Alexander Gardner.

    Unpublished letter by Abraham Lincoln discovered in Pennsylvania

    Short handwritten note was for Charles Ellet Jr, who had written to US president for civil engineer corps during civil war

April 2023

  • An 1886 menu from Chicago's The Palmer House, where Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, Sarah Bernhardt, and Ulysses S. Grant ate.

    Oyster stew, sturgeon soup: historic menus from Lincoln’s inaugural to San Quentin prison

  • Andy Burnham

    Like the Guardian, Manchester is reckoning with its historical links to slavery

    Andy Burnham

February 2023

  • The Lincoln-Douglas debate in Charleston, Illinois, in September 1858.

    The Lincoln Miracle review: how Republicans chose their great redeemer

    As the Republican Party marches right, Edward Achorn’s second book on the 16th president makes instructive reading

March 2022

  • The assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth, in a print, circa 1900.

    Book of the day
    Booth by Karen Joy Fowler review – background to an assassination

  • The statue of Abraham Lincoln is illuminated at sunrise as a visitor walks through the Lincoln Memorial in Washington.

    Lincoln and the fight for peace: John Avlon on a president in the shadow of new war

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