By Ed Epstein Washington, D.C. Friday, February 27, 2026 Author George Saunders best-selling and award-winning 2017 novel Lincoln in the Bardo , about President Abraham Lincoln's love and overwhelming feeling of loss over the 1862 death of his 11-year-old son Willie from typhoid fever, is being turned into a feature movie starring one of Hollywood's biggest stars and an elaborate Metropolitan Opera production that will premiere in October. Willie Lincoln Saunders work, which takes place over...

By Ed Epstein Washington, D.C. February 12, 2026 For a guy who's been gone since 1865, Abraham Lincoln proved today on his 217th birthday that he can still draw a crowd. The Lincoln Group's memorial wreath inside the Lincoln Memorial chamber. Some two dozen memorial wreaths were placed at the foot of the epic sculpture by Daniel Chester French of a seated Lincoln inside the Lincoln Memorial at the west end of the National Mall in the nation's capital. The wreaths came from the president of...

By Bill Shepherd Feb. 10, 2026 Note: This article first appeared on the Lincoln250.org blog, which is devoted to Abraham Lincoln and the Declaration of Independence. On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln offered the nation his vision of the true meaning of the sacrifices made on the Gettysburg battlefield. In the first sentence of his speech,  Lincoln transported us back to 1776 and the remarkable promise made in the Declaration of Independence — “all men are created equal.” Too often,...