<p>We can take pride in our nation, not as we pretend to a commission from God and a sacred destiny, but as we struggle to fulfill our deepest values in an inscrutable world.</p>
<p><span class="deck"> PRESIDENT LINCOLN MOVES AT LAST<br />
Influence of “Advanced Republicans” Seen as Crucial to the Outcome<br />
THE UNION UNITED STILL<br />
THE PRESIDENT’S TACT & COURAGE<br />
HE WAITED ON THE PROPER HOUR<br />
JUBILATION AMONG THE BLACKS<br />
They Stand Ready to Defend With Arms the Rights Thus Gained<br />
NEW LIGHT SHED ON THE PARTICULARS OF THE GREAT DRAMA </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A cache of letters, discovered in 1928 and published in the</span> Atlantic Monthly, <span class="typestyle"> proved that Abraham Lincoln had really loved Ann Rutledge. Or did they?</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> One man measures his life-span against the length of recorded history and finds tidings of comfort and hope</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> To stave off despair, the President relied on a sense of humor that was rich, self-deprecating—and surprisingly bawdy</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The early years of our republic produced dozens of great leaders. A historian explains how men like Adams and Jefferson were selected for public office, and tells why the machinery that raised them became obsolete.</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">A distinguished journalist and former presidential adviser says that, to find the meaning of any news story, we must dig for its roots in the past.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">A noted historian’s very personal tour of the city where so much of the American past took shape, with excursions into institutions famous and obscure, the archives that are the nation’s memory, and the haunts of some noble ghosts.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">The framers of the Constitution were proud of what they had done but might be astonished that their words still carry so much weight. A distinguished scholar tells us how the great charter has survived and flourished.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">A new novel about Lincoln examines questions about civil liberties in wartime, staff loyalties and disloyalties, and especially, Lincoln’s priorities</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">In the republic’s direst hour, he took command. In the black days after Bull Run, he won West Virginia for the Union. He raised a magnificent army and led it forth to meet his “cautious & weak” opponent, Robert E. Lee. Why hasn’t history been kinder to George B. McClellan?</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Every presidential election is exciting when it happens. Then, the passing of time usually makes the outcome seem less than crucial. But, after more than a century and a quarter, the election of 1860 retains its terrible urgency.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">More than the Revolution, more than the Constitutional Convention, it was the crucial test of the American nation. The author of <em><span class="typestyle"> Battle Cry of Freedom</span></em>, the most successful recent book on the subject, explains why the issues that fired the Civil War are as urgent in 1990 as they were in 1861. </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">When William Withers, Jr., stepped up to the conductor’s podium at Ford’s Theatre that April evening, he thought that the greatest triumph of his career was just a few minutes away.</span></p>
<p><span class="body"><span class="body"><span class="pullquote even">A child of the South's "Lost Cause," Truman broke with his convictions to make civil rights a concern of the national government for the first time since Reconstruction. In so doing, he changed the nation forever.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">The author joins the thousands who feel compelled to trace the flight of Lincoln’s assassin.</span></span></p>
<p><span class="deck">He told President Lincoln that he was better than any other officer on the field at Bull Run, and he got the Army’s top job. He built a beaten force into a proud one, and stole a march on Robert E. Lee with it. He was 24 hours away from winning the Civil War. Then, he fell apart.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">A newly discovered document almost certainly written by the young Abraham Lincoln shows him dismantling a shifty political rival with ruthless wit and logic.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Alone among all American battlefields, the scene of the Civil War’s costliest encounter is patrolled by government-licensed historians who keep alive for visitors the memory of what happened there.</span></p>
<p>Everyone knows that the bullet that John Wilkes Booth fired into Abraham Lincoln’s brain inflicted a terrible, mortal wound. But when a prominent neurosurgeon began to investigate the assassination, he discovered persuasive evidence that Lincoln’s doctors must share the blame with Booth’s derringer. Without their treatment, the president might very well have lived.</p>
<p><span class="deck">A historian of American portraits tells how he determines whether a picture is authentic and why that authenticity matters.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Unloved and unlovely, the fragile boats of the “Tinclad Navy” ventured, Lincoln said, “wherever the ground was a little damp,” and made a contribution to the war that has never been sufficiently appreciated.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Most of them were American soldiers who fought with skill, discipline, and high courage against a U.S. Army that numbered Ulysses Grant in its ranks. The year was 1847.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">The stirring Civil War document featured in <em><span class="typestyle"> Saving Private Ryan</span></em> grew out of a lie and probably wasn’t really written by Lincoln.</span></p>
<p>The events of 9/11 were horrific, almost beyond comprehension. But when our nation was sorely tried before, it emerged stronger and better than before.</p>
