By Ed Epstein Washington, D.C. Oct. 23, 2025 A museum that tells the story of the 209,154 members of the United States Colored Troops who fought for the Union cause in the Civil War after President Abraham Lincoln called for their enlistment in the Emancipation Proclamation will reopen next month. Statue of Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation, outside the new museum The private, non-profit African American Civil War Memorial museum in Washington, D.C.'s historic Sha

Washington D.C. Oct. 13, 2025 Author Richard Carwardine joined the Lincoln Group on Oct. 11 to discuss his thought-provoking new book "Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln's Union." The recording of his presentation and of the question-and-answer session that followed is now available on the Lincoln Group's YouTube channel: Carwardine, a Welshman by birth, is a professor emeritus at Oxford University, where he served as Rhodes Professor of Ameri

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

By Ed Epstein Washington, D.C. Wednesday, October 8, 2025 There was no fiercer defender of the promise of the Declaration of...

By Ed Epstein Washington, D.C. Monday, October 6, 2025 One of America's great 20th-century philanthropists, whose long life of giving was...

Debbie M. Jackson Washington, D.C. Thursday, October 2, 2025 Best-selling Lincoln scholar Richard Carwardine will attend a combined...

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: Kelsey Johnston Baltimore, Maryland September 15, 2025 As it approached its 90 anniversary, the Lincoln Group of the District of...

By Jeffrey Boutwell Washington, D.C. Sept. 15, 2025 Stan Watts, creator of the poignant bronze figure of President Abraham Lincoln...

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 Sameer Somal Doylestown, PA Monday, August 25, 2025 (Editor’s note:   Lincoln Group member   Sameer Somal is the CEO of Blue Ocean...

The Lincoln Group is honored to have been asked to chair the committee putting together this free, outdoor public event. The dedication...

by David J. Kent Washington, D.C. Wednesday, August 13, 2025 Working on a PhD? Finished your dissertation? Then now is the time to apply...

By Ed Epstein Washington, D.C. Wednesday, August 7, 2025 Big-time blogger, podcaster, and historian Heather Cox Richardson narrated...

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 John A. O'Brien Denver, Colorado Thursday, July 24, 2025 The Lincoln Study Forum just concluded a multi-session review of a...

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...