On library shelves the multi-volumed biographies by Nicolay and Hay, Sandburg, and Randall and Current stand cover to cover with *Lincoln Never Smoked a Cigarette* and *Abraham Lincoln on the ...

Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln remains a tragic historical figure, gunned down by an assassin just days after winning the nation's bloodiest war. A Republican ...

Eventful year in literature also. Neared the thousand mark on George Washington and Abraham Lincoln biographies. Three new authors; Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge and Al Smith. Scientific and cultural ...

James Lincoln de la Mothe Borglum, called Lincoln, was the first child of Gutzon Borglum and his second wife Mary, born on April 9, 1912. He was named after his father's favorite president ...

Thomas Symposium will be held the same day. The author of the two-volume "Abraham Lincoln: A Life," one of the most definitive biographies of the 16th president, Burlingame is the Chancellor Naomi B.