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By David J. Kent Washington, DC Nov. 10, 2025 Abraham Lincoln made his way to Washington, D.C. by a roundabout rail route in February 1861. Among his many stops was the city of Philadelphia, where on George Washington’s birthday he raised the American flag at Independence Hall. Lincoln acknowledged the import of the spot where the Declaration of Independence was signed: “I am filled with deep emotion at finding myself standing here in the place where were collected together t

By David J. Kent Washington, DC Monday, November 3, 2025 Abraham Lincoln was many things in his life - farmer, laborer, shopkeeper, postmaster, surveyor, lawyer, politician - and wrestler! In fact, Lincoln was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. You could say that Lincoln wrestled with the great issues of his time - promoting the idea that the Declaration of Independence's "all men are created equal" applied to ALL men (and women), grappling with the "peculiar

By Joshua Claybourn Oct. 30, 2025 On Nov. 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln stood on a Pennsylvania battlefield still scarred by war. Only four months earlier, Union forces had turned back Robert E. Lee’s army in the three-day clash at Gettysburg. Now the ground was consecrated as a cemetery, and Lincoln was asked to offer “a few appropriate remarks.” What he delivered in less than three minutes became one of the most enduring speeches in American history. Rather than dwell on milit

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.