By Jeffrey Boutwell Columbia, MD. Oct. 8, 2026         This summer, while visiting the Rhode Island seashore, I went into an upscale clothing store and saw this sign on the wall: My immediate gut reaction was, no; Abraham Lincoln could never have said that. This type of bland platitude is something you’d find in a fortune cookie or inside a Cracker Jack box. As in, It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.” I tracked down the quote on the web while...

By Ed Epstein Washington, D.C. Wednesday, October 1, 2026 Washington's newly renovated African American Civil War Museum, which honors President Abraham Lincoln as the man whose Emancipation Proclamation opened the door for 209, 145 former slaves to serve in the Civil War, reopened on Wednesday after a four-year hiatus. Cutting the ribbon to reopen the African American Civil War Museum after a four-year hiatus. The 16,000 square-foot-museum is on Vermont Avenue NW just south of the historic U...