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Squaring off against big-time luxury SUV competition, Lincoln’s new Nautilus proves it has the goods to take the brand to a refreshingly new level of excellence.
While Lincoln is still imagining what a halo might look like, Cadillac is buffing the paint on its own dream realized. Lincoln Cadillac Lincoln is, to put it lightly, in a tough spot.
The surprising history behind the Lincoln Memorial Here’s how the iconic monument, now celebrating its centennial, made its way from a Massachusetts artist colony to the National Mall.
A civil war broke out in the group as it antagonized Donald Trump, with leaders splintering over financial arrangements and revelations of online harassment by a top official.
Lincoln governed during the most divided era in our nation’s history — Trump is governing in the most acrimonious period since.
Lincoln revisionism is not new. In the nineteen-fifties, Edmund Wilson, in these pages, shook off the crooning hagiography of Carl Sandburg’s multivolume biography and replaced it with a vision ...
Why Abraham Lincoln Was Revered in Mexico As a young Congressman and later as the nation’s leader, the first Republican president proved to be a true friend to America’s neighbor to the south ...
What the Newspapers Said When Lincoln Was Killed The initial reaction to the president’s death was a wild mixture of grief, exultation, vengefulness and fear ...
History A Body for the Body Politic The strange, sad, and gross saga of Abraham Lincoln’s two-week funeral procession.
Abraham Lincoln often spoke and dreamed about being assassinated, convinced that he would not outlast the rebellion when his work would have been done. Prior to his inauguration, he received ...
Lincoln biographer Ronald White critiques the accuracy of Stephen Spielberg's new film about the Great Emancipator. White says that while not every detail of the film is true, "the delicate ...
Abraham Lincoln has been dead for almost 150 years, yet suddenly he’s everywhere. At the Skirball Cultural Center, you can see an original copy of the Emancipation Proclamation, signed by ...