Thanks to our own Stesha Brandon and the good folks in our Events Department, we will be hosting no less a personage than Ronald C. White,...

Taking the briefest of breaks from my Lincoln reading, before taking on the newest full biography, A. Lincoln , by Ronald C. White Jr. (to b...

Back in 2000, Gerald J. Prokopowicz published All for the Regiment: The Army of the Ohio 1861 - 1862. Now that is exactly the kind of Civil...

Just a reminder: we carry a variety of Used Books, including, for the moment, pretty interesting collection of Lincoln & Civil War titl...

I love Brian Lamb. How can you not? He's like that high school coach who ends up teaching History because the regular teacher is on mat...

And the Lincoln Bargain Books keep coming! Two delightful kids' titles from DK: Abraham Lincoln: A Photographic Story of a Life, by Tany...

Poor Mary Lincoln. In her lifetime she became a figure of ridicule, pity and even disdain. Her reputation since has hardly improved. Most of...

Our Discount Books buyers have been scouting for Lincoln books, and the first few are in. Remainders, for any who might not know the booksel...

The Lincoln/Douglas debates are justifiably famous, much written about still, and a source of endless interest to scholars and readers alike...

James M. McPherson is of the school of my favorite historians, the great popularizers; writers of sound and exciting prose narratives whose ...

In, I think, the second grade, already the consummate ham, I organized a "play" to commemorate Lincoln's Birthday at a PTA me...

I'm a big fan of brief lives. From Plutarch's Lives to Johnson's Lives of the Poets, to the wonderful Penguin Lives. I've ...

I intended to greet the New Year here last night, first thing after our private celebrations, but I didn't get to this until tonight.  A...

What makes a biography the “standard life?” Most obviously, if the biography eventually eclipses the subject in fame – think of Boswell’s J...

Harold Holzer is a remarkable scholar with more than forty books to his credit, the majority to do with Lincoln. Of his earlier books, I pa...

In the ongoing Frenzy of Lincoln Bicentennial publishing, by far the biggest and most visually satisfying offering this year to date would h...

William Lee Miller is my favorite living American historian. If you don't know him, you should. His book from 1998, Arguing About Slave...

His birthday is still more than a month away, and already the Lincoln books are rolling in like thunder! With what seems to be a new or rei...

There are two new, well reviewed, biographies of Doctor Samuel "Dictionary" Johnson. This is marvelous news -- if I didn't al...

Actually, he'd rather hate having reference made to that most famous role, though clearly he's learned to live with it by now. And, ...