To his congressional adversaries, he is a tyrant — “King Abrahamus Lincolnus” — and to his allies, a weakling: “the capitulating compromiser.” Thaddeus Stevens, the powerful chairman of the House Ways ...

Abraham Lincoln is about to drink your milkshake. Long stuck in production purgatory, Steven Spielberg’s biopic about the 16th President of the United States is finally being made, with Daniel-Day ...

There’s an unfun tendency in American life to fictionalize our national heroes as rigid statue people who speak only as though they are delivering commencement addresses, a kind of unlovable, Al ...

Steven Spielberg's Lincoln has dominated the nominations for the 2013 EE BAFTAs. The historical drama secured nods for 'Best Film', 'Best Actor' for Daniel Day-Lewis and 'Best Supporting Actress' for ...