Regarding Gerard Baker’s “Big Brother Is Teaching You” (Free Expression, Sept. 3): In a speech in Chicago on July 10, 1858, Abraham Lincoln described the arguments “that kings have made for enslaving ...
In the last days of a devastating civil war, President Abraham Lincoln's thoughts turned to passages in William Shakespeare's "Macbeth." It was his favorite Shakespeare play. In a letter to an actor, ...
Though Lincoln himself was not Jewish, his words of support drawn from the faith of history’s first Jew continue to serve as ...