To his congressional adversaries, he is a tyrant — “King Abrahamus Lincolnus” — and to his allies, a weakling: “the capitulating compromiser.” Thaddeus Stevens, the powerful chairman of the House Ways ...

There’s an unfun tendency in American life to fictionalize our national heroes as rigid statue people who speak only as though they are delivering commencement addresses, a kind of unlovable, Al ...

For anyone who cringed just a little while watching the trailer for "Lincoln" and worried that it might be a near-parody of a Steven Spielberg film, with its heartfelt proclamations, sentimental tones ...