Abraham Lincoln

Will Nikki Haley ever admit defeat? Will the radical left decide to run an alternative to Joe Biden? It’s going to be a wild ride, but it’s one we’ve had ...

Commentary February is the shortest month of the year, but it seems to have the most holidays. The ...

Commentary When I viewed the film, “Lincoln,” in which Daniel-Day Lewis plays President Abraham Lincoln, I noticed there ...

Commentary Historians and the general public regularly rank Abraham Lincoln as America’s greatest president. There is little doubt ...

Commentary This Thanksgiving, we should set aside time not only for prayer as a grateful nation, a practice ...

Commentary Any list of the greatest speeches in history must include the Sermon on the Mount, Pericles’s Oration ...

Chris Madsen left his name and past behind to take on the toughest job in the West.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:  A PROCLAMATION.  Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, ...

There can be no doubt that Lincoln was a great leader, and that his words will continue to ...

T.J. Johnston’s compelling “Lockett and the Devil’s Path” highlights how the Spencer rifle aided the Civil War’s Union ...

A Battle is Lost, But the War Can Still be Won Wise counsels may accelerate it, or mistakes ...

Where There is a Will, There is a Way And by the successful, and the unsuccessful, let it ...

“The result is not doubtful. We shall not fail.” The weather in Washington D.C. on March 4, 1861 ...

“Nothing through passion and ill temper.” On April 19, 1861, Private Luther Ladd became the first casualty of ...

Flexibility to Adapt to New Challenges The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. ...

Emotional Control Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our ...

This week in history: How the practice of substitute soldiers found its way to the White House

Leadership vs. Tyranny If a state, in one instance, and a county in another, should be equal in ...

The Purpose of Power At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, ...

Known as “The Great Compromiser,” Henry Clay would use his stellar public-speaking skills to rise through the political ...

Commentary If the 21st century could be given a motto, it should be, “Those who forget the past ...

In one of the great cartoon strips of all time, Bill Watterson’s “Calvin and Hobbes,” Calvin is an ...

Timepieces that have appeared on the wrists—or in the pockets—of the commander in chief throughout the centuries tell ...

Recently, while reading some stories from Leo Tolstoy’s “Walk in the Light and Twenty-Three Tales,” it struck me ...

When an American president speaks, it is heard around the world. Their words of wisdom are just as ...

When W.F.K. Travers’s 9-foot-tall painting of Abraham Lincoln was first unveiled to America at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition ...

My grandfather on my mother’s side was a self-taught lawyer. His jurisprudence was practiced in Socorro, New Mexico, ...