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On The Caucus blog in today's New York Times, political reporter Katharine Q. Seelye has an interesting post about President Obama's intense feeling of connection with Abraham Lincoln and the ways in which he is expressing it publicly. The piece begins with a general...

Joaquin Phoenix's appearance on last night's Late Show is being widely deconstructed on the internet and the radio.  It's true that he hasn't hitherto been known as a pillar of dependability or stability ---his past history and his recent decision to forswear acting...

  Today, of course, is Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday.    This portrait, by George P. A. Healy, was one of the fifteen painted of the sixteenth President by the most popular portraitist of the day.  It was painted in 1887, twenty-two years after Lincoln's death, but...

John H. Taylor, President Nixon's former chief of staff and executive director of the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation since 1990, is leaving his Foundation position on Feb. 15 to accept the call of the Episcopal Bishop of Los Angeles, J. Jon Bruno,...

This afternoon the History News Network site published a statement by Robert A. Schneider, professor of European history at Indiana University and the editor of the American Historical Review.   Regular TNN readers will recall that the AHR is the journal to which...

It has been a week since the New York Times published Patricia Cohen's article about an article which historian Peter D. Klingman submitted to the American Historical Review arguing that University of Wisconsin Professor Stanley I. Kutler's book of Watergate tape...

In today's column, Dick Morris and Eileen McGann limn the major choice President Obama is about to have to make: President Obama must now decide whether he'll govern from the center or from the left. President Bill Clinton faced the exact same decision in 1993 - and...

While I'm probably a bit late to this party, the Frost/Nixon movie finally came to my small town of Pres-cut. (That's the way the natives say it around here. If you pronounce it Prescott, then people ask where you're from.) Walked away from the theater wondering how...

Political advance ---of which presidential advance is a subset--- is an art as well as a science.  It's not just important to move POTUS from point A to point B in the most efficient and secure way possible.  What he does when he reaches point B is, well, the whole...

Stephen L. Zetterberg, who ran against RN in 1948 to represent the 12th congressional district in the House of Representatives, died on Friday at his home in Claremont, California. He was 92. His obituary appears in many papers today, among them The New York Times and...