Lincoln Log

Steven Smith, Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale, discusses Lincoln's political philosophy.

Allen Guelzo, Senior Research Scholar in the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University and Director of the James Madison Program’s Initiative in Politics and Statesmanship, discusses his forthcoming biography of Robert E. Lee.

Law professor Michael Gerhardt discusses his new book titled Lincoln's Mentors: The Education of a Leader.

Attorney and historian Richard Hart addresses Abraham Lincoln's Springfield, original research, and changing views of Lincoln's roots.

Lincoln historian Joshua Claybourn appears by himself to discuss Lincoln's birth and Nancy Lincoln's ancestry.

Bancroft Prize-winning author David S. Reynolds discusses his popular new biography, Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times.

Elizabeth Mitchell, author of Lincoln’s Lie, discusses a 1864 newspaper article to reveal how Lincoln manipulated the media during the Civil War.

Liz Varon, author of Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War, discusses her sweeping book about the Civil War and interpretation of Union and Confederate war aims.

Harold Holzer, one of the country’s leading authorities on Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War era, discusses his new book titled The Presidents vs. the Press: The Endless Battle between the White House and the Media—from the Founding Fathers to Fake News.