Lincoln’s Murder Is Often Re-enacted, but Not at Ford’s Theater
The theater says that allowing the assassination to be recreated there would undermine the gravity and significance of Abraham Lincoln’s death.
By Rebecca J. Ritzel
The theater says that allowing the assassination to be recreated there would undermine the gravity and significance of Abraham Lincoln’s death.
By Rebecca J. Ritzel
Three new books explore the complications of liberty and the seductions of authoritarianism in American life.
By Parker Henry
Taken together, two new books tell the century-long story of the revolutionary ideals that transformed the United States, and the counterrevolutionaries who fought them.
By S. C. Gwynne
El principal logro del actual mandatario, según los historiadores encuestados, fue sacar a Donald Trump del Despacho Oval.
By Peter Baker
President Biden may owe his place in the top third to his predecessor: Mr. Biden’s signature accomplishment, according to the historians, was evicting Donald J. Trump from the Oval Office.
By Peter Baker
In “Brought Forth on This Continent” and “The Last Ships From Hamburg,” people fleeing violence and famine meet resistance in the United States.
By David Nasaw
Lincoln was ahead of his time in so many ways.
By Jamelle Bouie
The New York Public Library is acquiring the collection of Jonathan Mann, an Abraham Lincoln expert who died last summer after a random attack on the Manhattan Bridge.
By Jennifer Schuessler
Why Section 3 of the 14th Amendment was added to the Constitution and remains relevant.
By Mark A. Graber
Refusing to listen to the other side of a debate doesn’t have a very good record of success.
By David Leonhardt
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