In this lesson, students interrogate their own assumptions about Abraham Lincoln in order to arrive at a deeper understanding of who Lincoln was. They investigate primary source documents in order to ...

It was 1859. The analogies to the current state of American politics are not precise and even paradoxical. To begin with, John Brown, though crazy and bloodthirsty, was on the right side of history.

Even though President Abraham Lincoln was in office during one of the most turbulent times in American history, he became famous for his ability to use humorous stories and anecdotes to make a point.

In And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham argues that "[a] president who led a divided country in which an implacable minority ...

The power of Lincoln's personal example in the closing days of the Civil War offers a portrait of a peacemaker. While his assassination sent the country careening off course, Lincoln's vision would be ...

In honor of President’s Day 2021, I look at some leadership lessons from Abraham Lincoln. In a New York Times (NYT) article, entitled “Lincoln’s School of Management”, Nancy F. Koehn, a historian at ...

April marks the anniversary of both Abraham Lincoln’s assassination in 1865 and the end of apartheid in South Africa in 1994. It is therefore fitting that we reflect on lessons of leadership from ...