Why is it one of the best Civil War movies: Though Lincoln features very little in terms of combat, Steven Spielberg’s ...

OVERVIEW: Abraham Lincoln’s presidency was defined by the Civil War. Before he even took office—and largely because of his election—southern states were seceding from the Union, and he would ...

Trump's habit is to treat Lincoln not only as a giant of history, but something of a political contemporary. And a flawed one ...

Garry Adelman, a historian, rates nine American Civil War battles in movies. He comments on the ... and Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" (2012), starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, and Tommy ...

The true story of Abraham Lincoln and his bodyguard, U.S. Marshal Ward Hill Lamon. This unique film features sets created from actual Civil War photographs.

In his famous 1858 speech, Abraham Lincoln warned that only civil war would resolve the issue of slavery in the U.S. He wasn’t wrong. An anonymous letter supposedly from a member of a secret ...