By: Kelsey S. Johnston Baltimore, MD October 4, 2026 Professor Kenneth Noe spoke to the Lincoln Group recently about his new book, “Abraham Lincoln and the Heroic Legend.” During the discussion, Noe presented a detailed account of how Lincoln’s contemporaries and later historians helped create the idea that Lincoln, the untutored amateur, turned into a military genius far superior to even his best generals, and even George B. McClellan. Noe describes the processes by which historians and the...

By: Kelsey Johnston Baltimore, Maryland Sunday, June 28, 2026 Yale University professor of law and political science Akhil Reed Amar joined the regular meeting of the Lincoln Study Forum on June 13 as discussed his timely and engaging book, "Born Equal: Remaking America’s Constitution, 1840-1920." "Born Equal" recounts the dramatic events and constitutional debates that unfolded across eight decades and which reimagined the meaning of the Declaration of Independence's proposition that "all...

By: Kelsey Johnston Baltimore, Maryland Tuesday, May 19 , 2026 The Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia was thrilled to welcome Lois Romano to our monthly meeting on May 12, 2026. Veteran journalist Lois Romano takes a deep dive into Mary Lincoln’s long, difficult years of widowhood to present a more fully contextualized view in "An Inconvenient Widow: The Torment, Trial and Triumph of Mary Todd Lincoln." The book is described by its publisher, Simon & Schuster, as a “revelatory new...