WGLT talks to Raymond McKoski, the author of a new biography of David Davis, whose mansion and historic site in Bloomington ...

I love introducing kids to ordinary people who did amazing things by reading picture book biographies for kids. Don't you?

Would Abraham Lincoln, who loved the theater, have approved? “He enjoyed all sorts of theatrical entertainment,” historian David Herbert Donald wrote in his 1995 Lincoln biography. He loved ...

Nearly 90 years after his death—and with some 5,000 books already published about him—Abraham Lincoln is still one ... of a rambling but reflective biography, begun in 1937, which this time ...

Abraham Lincoln ... pieces of which are told in Hamilton’s book, is one of the most absorbing in all of Lincoln scholarship. “In truth,” Hamilton writes, “Lincoln had really no idea ...

I was once at a wedding reception and had to introduce myself to the men on both sides of me at the table. Unbelievable as it may seem, on my left was an astrophysicist; on my right a neurosurgeon.

began a multivolume Lincoln biography with this atmospheric, authoritative curtain raiser. It reimagines the roiling political culture in which young Abraham Lincoln waged his earliest and most ...

The arguments run from Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the 1790s to Abraham Lincoln in the ... David Herbert Donald notes in his biography of Lincoln. “Few could have realized that he ...

“The Cross Word Puzzle Book,” by F. Gregory Hartswick ... was chosen over her Abraham Lincoln biography. “Team of Rivals,” the story of Lincoln’s inner circle of former presidential ...

Two new books probe the mysteries of Abraham Lincoln’s public and private relationship ... for themselves,” Leidner concludes the biography with a 55-page appendix describing in detail 199 ...

Abraham Lincoln referred to it as "the ludicrous incident of sewing up the hogs eyes." "As a youngster he shot a wild turkey and was so disgusted he claimed he never again raised a weapon to kill ...