By Edward Epstein Washington, D.C. Wednesday, May 9, 2024 William Henry Herndon Sr., the great-great-great grandson of the man with the...

By David J. Kent Washington DC Sunday, May 12, 2024 The Lincoln Group of DC holds elections every two years in May, and 2024 is one of...

By David J. Kent Washington, DC Wednesday, May 8, 2024 The Lincoln Group of DC will meet to hold our final spring meeting on Tuesday, May...

By Ed Epstein Washington, D.C. Tuesday, May 7, 2024 The document from April 1861 in which President Lincoln ordered southern ports...

By John A. O'Brien Denver, Colorado Saturday, May 4, 2024 Lincoln wrote to U.S. Grant on April 30, 1864, five days before the Army of the...

by David J. Kent Washington, DC Monday, April 29, 2024 "The only constant is change," supposedly* said ancient Greek philosopher...

By David J. Kent Washington, DC Saturday, April 27, 2024 We all know John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln. And...

By Ed Epstein Washington, D.C. Tuesday, April 23, 2024 Ethan Afshani is a busy 21-year-old college junior who works part-time as a...

By Edward Epstein Washington, D.C. Saturday, April 20, 2024 The Lincoln Memorial, Washington's most-visited monument, makes a brief but...

By David J. Kent Washington, DC Tuesday, April 16, 2024 Changes are coming to The Lincoln Herald. Lincoln Memorial University in...

By Wendy Swanson Washington, D.C. Saturday, April13, 2024 The Spotsylvania Battlefield today. A perfect spot for a spring outing. The...

By Edward Epstein Washington, D.C. April 8, 2024 The path of totality for today's total eclipse of the sun will pass not too far south of...

By Wendy Swanson Washington, D.C. Friday, April 5, 2024 The Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association (JALA) is the preeminent source...

By David J. Kent Washington, D.C. Tuesday, April 2, 2024 As we've shown in our periodic Unexpected Lincoln series, connections to Abraham...

By Wendy Swanson Washington, D.C. Thursday, March 28, 2024 Fairfax’s Historic Blenheim (shown above) is a jewel of a historic site—one...

By Ed Epstein Washington, D.C. Wednesday, March 20, 2024 The audience at the Lincoln Forum--a gathering of Lincoln-ophiles that meets...

By Edward Epstein Washington, D.C. Tuesday, March 12, 2024 As he prepared to exit from his long-running role as tough prosecutor Jack...

By John A. O'Brien Denver, Colorado Saturday, March 9, 2024 Few historical personalities have told their own story as well as Ulysses S....

By Wendy Swanson Washington, D.C. Thursday, March 7, 2024 As the war dragged on, Abraham Lincoln, frustrated by the performance of the...

By Wendy Swanson Washington, D.C. Tuesday, March 5, 2024 Are you ready to partake in a happy hour? How about a happy hour featuring not...