Topic: Abraham Lincoln

Oh thank goodness, IT WAS ABOUT TIME: Pennsylvania lawmakers unanimously approved a resolution declaring 2012 the "Year of the Bible" in their...
In MTV News' recent visit to the set of "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter," we learned that the movie will be anything but a traditional look back...

This Week in the Civil War

This Week in The Civil War, for week of Sunday, Jan. 29, 1862: Lincoln's Special War Order No. 1. On Jan. 30, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln ...

Don't Be Bored: Lincoln and the Constitution

Among other reasons Ron Paul would make an unlikely standard-bearer for the Republican Party is the fact that he, apparently, doesn't think much of...

Religion and racism in US primary

One hundred and seventy-eight years ago, in the little Massachusetts town of Charlestown, a mob of Protestant evangelicals burned to the ground a ...

'Topdog/Underdog' Is Black Like Us

Topdog/underdog at South Coast Repertory's Julianne Argyros Stage, www.scr.org. Tues.-Fri., 7:45 p.m.; Sat.-Sun., 2 & 7:45 p.m. $20-$68 ...

The Lincoln Telegrams

AP. The Huntington acquires several telegrams penned by President Abraham Lincoln; the missives had been thought destroyed.. advertisement...

The Lines That Received the Longest Applause at the State of the Union

There were over 50 rounds of applause during the State of the Union last night. Some of them were brief and obligatory. Many took the form of...

A State of Denial

Toward the end of his State of the Union address, President Obama delivered a paragraph that was so blatantly absurd and self contradictory as to...

What Would Dagger John Do?

In 1844, faced with a Nativist threat to burn down St. Patrick's Old Cathedral (at Prince and Mott streets), John J. Hughes, the Irish-born bishop...