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If Abe Lincoln were alive today, he'd be the world's oldest man at 200. But more importantly, he'd also be able to settle a question regarding Disneyland's Great Moments with Mr.

It looks like Abraham Lincoln. It moves like Abraham Lincoln. And it quotes Abraham Lincoln.

Three old World War I soldiers in a nursing home in 1959 wage a battle against authority and mortality in this small comic gem by French playwright Gerald Sibleyras, translated by none other than Tom Stoppard.

NEW YORK - When he came to New York in February 1860 to address the Cooper Union, Abraham Lincoln got a first look at the powerful people in this city who played on the national political stage.

Thank Abraham Lincoln for Thanksgiving. The Kentucky-born president did not think up the idea of a national day to consider our blessings.

The Investors Savings Bank Foundation, which provides charitable grants to programs that enhance the neighborhoods the bank serves, has awarded $5,000 in support of the Scotch Plains Public Library's scheduled Abraham Lincoln exhibit.

Less than a month before the Civil War's start, a newly inaugurated President Lincoln took time from his frantic schedule to write to an Illinois boy whose classmates didn't believe he'd met the president.

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.