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By Joshua Claybourn Oct. 22, 2025 When Abraham Lincoln spoke of a “new birth of freedom,” he was naming the moral fault line of the Civil War. The Declaration of Independence, with its claim that “all men are created equal,” was, for him, the nation’s moral compass.   The Founders planted that ideal knowing it was incomplete. They compromised with slavery to create the Union, but they did so believing that freedom, once declared, would grow. The contradiction between the Decl

By Ed Epstein Washington D.C. Oct. 14, 2025 Big-time sports betting didn’t exist in Abraham Lincoln’s time – the mid-19 th  century – yet he made a “proposition” wager that some day America would live up to its founding promise in the Declaration of Independence that all people are created equal. A proposition bet in today’s booming market for legal sports betting covers some long-shot, idiosyncratic wagers – such as whether a football, basketball, hockey or soccer game will

In his long political career, Abraham Lincoln had to deal with groups he felt were out to betray his beloved Declaration of Independence

One of America's great 20th-century philanthropists, whose long life of giving was inspired by Abraham Lincoln's vision of equality and opportunity for all, is the subject of a new film documentary that has been nominated for an Emmy award.

Lincoln250.org is all about Abraham Lincoln's views on the founding of our nation some 250 years ago, and the impact those views had during the tumultuous years of his presidency during the Civil War and continue to have today.

Abraham Lincoln was a lawyer and a politician, not a historian. But as the 16th president, he saw the challenges of the Civil War against a backdrop of history, and particularly the history of the American Revolution.