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Two years ago, noted historian and author Harold Holzer was asked to create a a oewish lista of artifacts for an upcoming Lincoln bicentennial exhibition at the New-York Historical Society.

Gore Vidal, a self-described narrator of empire, seems to enjoy nothing more than puncturing sacrosanct American icons.

Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation is popularly regarded as a heroic act by a great American president .

Issues of race are never as clear as black and white, even when you're talking about Abraham Lincoln, the "Great Emancipator," whose attitude toward African-Americans ranged across several shades of gray.

ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS The Rockwell portrait, from back when Lincoln was butch.

The subjects of this year's National Book Award nominees were better known than the authors.

When Abraham Lincoln visited New York in February 1861, Walt Whitman noticed that an "ominous silence" greeted the president-elect as he arrived at the Astor House hotel.

We New Yorkers take great pride in our history. But our record on Abraham Lincoln is mixed.

While usually steeped in the anxiety which met and followed World War II, film noir can, on rare occasions, take place prior to the 20th century.

Author and liberal political pundit Gore Vidal contends that the United States is headed for a "military dictatorship" because "nobody else can hold everything together." In a wide-ranging interview with the Times of London, the 83-year-old writer also commented on President Obama, George W. Bush, John McCain, and even Oklahoma City bomber Timothy ...

The ILB has a number of entries on the closing of the Lincoln Museum in Fort Wayne and the eventual decision to split the collection between the Fort Wayne library and the State Museum in Indianapolis.

Intiman's "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" features Mary Jane Gibson as Mary Todd Lincoln, Erik Lochtefeld as Lincoln and R. Hamilton Wright as Stephen A. Douglas.

Gore Vidal, what's not like to like ? Except for maybe everything: Vidal originally became pro-Obama because he grew up in "a black city" , as well as being impressed by Obama's intelligence.

Gore Vidal: - We'll have a dictatorship soon in the US' Klint Finley Vidal now believes, as he did originally, Clinton would be the better president.

The grand old man of letters Gore Vidal claims America is 'rotting away' - and don't expect Barack Obama to save it A conversation with Gore Vidal unfolds at his pace.

The 2009-2010 speakers' line-up for the Centre for American Studies is slated to be a world-class affair featuring renowned scholars, a famous author and an iconic musician.

Last week, the New York Times Magazine ran an intriguing interview with the longtime editor of Commentary , Norman Podhoretz, which was closely attuned to his new book Why Are Jews Liberals? The question is posed in a predictably negative way, and the interview helps us understand why.

It seems the recent little spate of publicity over Robert Redford's new film about Mary Surratt has motivated Steven Spielberg to break the silence surrounding his long-awaited Lincoln biopic.

In this May 5, 2003 file photo, author Gore Vidal arrives for the Film Society of Lincoln Center's gala tribute for actress Susan Sarandon held in New York.

Scholars will help commemorate the 150th anniversary Thursday of a 90-minute speech by Abraham Lincoln during an Ohio tour.