Abraham Lincoln

While at the Library of Congress, Ari Siegel encountered a handwritten letter from Abraham Lincoln, and said the experience taught him that primary source documents were the key to learning history.

The steps of the memorial were splattered with red paint and pro-Palestinian messages, which the National Park Service said could take some time to clean up.

Having lived in Israel on and off for a number of years, I’ve come to love the country like family. Things I appreciate. Things I don’t. And boy, does this moment feel like a test!

A new book untangles one of the best-known incidents involving Jews in the American Civil War.

Thirty-five hundred Northern soldiers are buried in the Gettysburg cemetery – out of 23,000 Northern troops who perished in this costliest battle in the American Civil War.

My purpose in this article is to show how Lincoln’s triumph and death were portrayed in a Hebrew newspaper of the time of the Civil War.

The Israeli union, a delicate embroidery of ethnicities, faiths, tribes and ideas, is even more complex than what the American nation nearly tore apart 160 years ago

It is unlikely that Rivlin’s words, or decision, will do anything to – as Lincoln put it – “bind up the nation’s wounds.”

Lincoln often championed the rights of Jewish Americans, many of whom he counted among his closest friends.

On The Lincoln Project’s website its stated mission is to “defeat President Trump and Trumpism at the ballot box.”