Lincoln Day 2019

Lincoln historian and author Bill Bartlet, who co-edited Abe's Youth with me, will be the featured speaker at the annual Lincoln Day program at the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial on Sunday, February 10, 2019. Bartelt is a former employee of...

Finding Our Sense of National Identity

A bombshell New York Times op-ed by an anonymous author rightly suggests an urgent need to transcend increasing tribalism, which presents a troubling challenge to American civic life. Can we come together around a defining narrative, or make our multiple...

Abe’s Youth

I’m pleased to announce that William "Bill" Bartelt and I signed a contract with Indiana University Press to publish a new book tentatively titled Abe’s Youth: Collected Works from the Indiana Lincoln Inquiry. I’m especially excited to work with Bill,...