All posts tagged "Abraham Lincoln"
Movies
Movie Review: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
April 18, 2026The director’s signature speedy, frenetic zooms punctuate a film that’s smoothly paced and winkingly earnest. The...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Lincoln’s Hundred Days by Louis P. Masur
March 4, 2026The determination to end slavery may not have figured initially as a Union war aim for...
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Movies & TV
Movie Review: Lincoln
February 27, 2026As expected, Day-Lewis breathes life into Abraham Lincoln. And, as expected, he’s fantastic to watch, even...
Movies & TV
The Weekly Listicle Analyzes History’s Greatest (And Not So Greatest) Leaders
September 29, 2025A discussion about biopics centered on national leaders.
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The New York Times Complete Civil War 1861-1865
July 13, 2025This collection of the Times' news coverage during the war is a must-have for Civil War...
Biography
Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame
April 8, 2025Never perhaps has there been such a masterful account of the man’s failures—and successes—in this country’s...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson
March 17, 2025Lincoln came to the Presidency without any real military experience. He had been an Illinois militia...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Lincoln Emancipated: The President And the Politics of Race edited by Brian R. Dirck; foreword by Allen C. Guelzo
January 28, 2025What is heartening is that, as Professor Michael Vorenberg stresses in his essay, Lincoln’s thinking about...
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