Abraham Lincoln

Preston Manning on the new Spielberg film, ’Lincoln’—and what Obama could learn from it

For the record, Colby Cosh on some ’just plain weird’ alternate-universe U.S. history

A few years back I came upon one of those historical footnotes that gets you thinking: after Abraham Lincoln was shot on April...

Rumours about bin Laden are only the latest in a toxic new wave of conspiracy theories

Every third monday in February, the U.S. celebrates a national holiday honouring George Washington and his successors as...

Peter Wehner notes the difference between civility and weakness.

And that makes us look crazy

Andrew Steele draws the line between raucous debate and what it is that we have.

Marx and Freud have faded badly, but Darwin still rules today

Obama looks to Lincoln, who gave Americans the optimism they craved