By Jeffrey Boutwell Columbia, MD Saturday, August 1, 2026 Union fortunes on August 6, 1862, were at a low ebb when the government held a Great War Rally with 10,000 people on the steps of the U.S. Capitol. It was the first mass public meeting held since the start of the war and was intended to raise Union morale and stimulate enlistments into the army. President Lincoln was on the speakers' platform and made some impromptu remarks, telling the crowd not to be concerned abou

By David J. Kent Washington, DC Sunday, July 26, 2026 Lincoln’s Whig Party passed on their traditional party leader Henry Clay to nominate General Zachary Taylor as their nominee for the 1848 presidential nomination. Taylor had been the hero of Buena Vista in the recently ended Mexican War, and the public was clamoring for the war hero to be the next commander-in-chief. Lincoln himself spoke out in Taylor’s favor at the Whig convention held in Philadelphia. To balance the tic

By David J. Kent Washington, DC Friday, July 17, 2026 Abraham Lincoln is everywhere, or so it seems. The Lincoln Sculpture Project Map created by David Wiegers and Scott Schoeder (an LGDC board member) has reached close to 700 sculptures around the world, with new ones being added as soon as they go up. During my recent travels in the Balkans, I went in search of one of the more elusive - and apparently cryptic - statues, in of all places, Skopje, North Macedonia. The map abo

By John A. O'Brien Sunday, July 12, 2026 Denver, Colorado A recent executive order challenged the principle that all people born in this country are citizens. On Wednesday, July 1, the Supreme Court affirmed that, yes, “children born in the United States to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are ‘subject to the jurisdiction’ of the United States and are citizens at birth under the 14th Amendment.'” The majority opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts and a conc

Ed Epstein Washington, D.C. Thursday, July 9, 2026 Tireless Washington photographer Bruce Guthrie, a great friend of the Lincoln Group, visited the new Lincoln Memorial Undercroft Museum on its recent opening day and produced images we want to share with you. Some of the workers' tools left underground after construction ended more than a century ago. The 15,000-square-foot museum run by the National Park Service is well worth a visit to see the massive concrete pillars pound