Every generation gets its own Abraham Lincoln biography. But if time seems to move faster these days, then perhaps it is altogether fitting and proper that our generation should have so many.

Presidential historian Jon Meacham speaks with NPR about his new biography, And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle. It examines Lincoln's actions as well as motivations.

Fun fact: Feb. 12, 1809, is the birthdate for both Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin. While we tend to contemplate “The Great Emancipator” as fully formed well before he became the 16t… ...

LINCOLN.; The First Biography of Him, Now Extremely Scarce and Almost Unknown, Beautifully Reprinted. Share full article. Sept. 8, 1900. Credit... The New York Times Archives.

A new biography by Jon Meacham portrays Abraham Lincoln navigating a country “roiled by debates about democracy and public life. ... President Abraham Lincoln sits for a portrait on Feb. 5, 1865.

The writer Carl Sandburg, in his 1926 biography of Abraham Lincoln, made a provocative claim—that the President’s relationship with the Kentucky state representative Joshua Speed held ...