By Bill Shepherd Friday, December 26, 2025 (This article originally appeared on Lincoln250.org , our separate website dedicated to Abraham Lincoln and the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence in 2026.) Abraham Lincoln’s faith in the promise of the Declaration of Independence - that all people are created equal and that they should get opportunities to succeed in life - was shaped in good part by his often-overlooked ancestral roots in Virginia’s Shenandoah Val

By David J. Kent Washington, DC Wednesday, December 17, 2025 Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation freed those enslaved in the areas still in rebellion against the United States. Lincoln then fought for passage of the 13th Amendment ending slavery forever. Despite these actions and the 14th and 15th Amendments that followed from them, basic civil rights for African Americans remained elusive. It would be actions taken nearly 100 years after Lincoln's efforts that finall

By David J. Kent Washington, D.C. Monday, December 1, 2025 Ronald Rietveld passed away  on November 27, 2025, at the age of 88. Rietveld was a professor of history at California State University–Fullerton for many years, although he is best known for his discovery at the age of 14 of the only known photograph of Abraham Lincoln in his coffin, taken April 24, 1865, as he lay in repose in New York during the long train ride back to Springfield. Rietveld's discovery shocked hist

By David J. Kent Washington, DC Sunday, October 12, 2025 Michelle Krowl, Lucas Morel, Jonathan White, Callie Hawkins at President...

By John A. O'Brien Denver, Colorado Saturday, September 27, 2025 The New York Avenue Presbyterian Church is the most important Lincoln...

By Ed Epstein Washington, D.C. September. 24, 2025 It was a singular honor for me, as president of the Lincoln Group of the District of...

By David J. Kent Washington, D.C. Monday, September 22, 2025 On the anniversary of Abraham Lincoln issuing the Preliminary Emancipation...

By David J. Kent Washington, DC (via Quito, Ecuador) Friday, September 12, 2025 Abraham Lincoln is in Quito, Ecuador. Right there on the...

By Ed Epstein Washington, D.C. Friday, September 5, 2025 A powerful new statue of Abraham Lincoln showing the 16th president signing the...

By David J. Kent Washington, DC Thursday, July 31, 2025 Abraham Lincoln is everywhere, it seems, as I recently discovered on a road trip...

By David J. Kent Washington, D.C. Friday, July 18, 2025 Abraham Lincoln traveled through upstate New York in early 1861 on his way to...

By David J. Kent Washington, DC Monday, July 7, 2025 Lincoln and Tad Abraham Lincoln went to Richmond, Virginia, once in his life. In...

By John A. O'Brien Denver, Colorado Sunday, May 4, 2025 Abraham Lincoln was laid to rest in Springfield, Illinois, 160 years ago on May...

By Ed Epstein Washington, D.C. Saturday, March 29, 2025 The state of Illinois says it will spend $8 million to repair some of the...

By Ed Epstein Washington, D.C. Sunday, March 23, 2025 Ford's Theatre, the landmark so closely associated with Abraham Lincoln, this week...

By Ed Epstein Washington, D.C. Wednesday, February 12, 2025 It was a cold and snowy morning today at the Lincoln Memorial, but that...

By Ed Epstein Washington, D.C. Monday, December 30, 2024 In September 1978, President Jimmy Carter hosted Egyptian President Anwar Sadat...

By Jeffrey Boutwell Columbia, MD October 15, 2024 No, three members of the Lincoln Group of DC were not visiting the IRS offices in...

By Debbie Jackson Washington, D.C. October 9, 2024 Many, if not most, may already be familiar with one of the longest-operating Lincoln...

By David J. Kent Washington, D.C. Friday, October 4, 2024 Technically, Augustus Saint-Gaudens was born in Dublin, Ireland, and from the...