Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes. BBC Central Casting, run by hack writers from the 80's My, they are piddlin' little boats aren't they? Surely that's not the best Iran can muster... are

Talk about historical fiction. Fox has released the first atmospheric, action-packed trailer for its "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter," a 3-D summer spectacle film starring relative newcomer Benjamin Walker as a very different incarnation of our venerabl

Couple of thoughts about the chapter that I just finished about Bingham’s prosecution of John Wilkes Booth’s co-conspirators (including Mary Surratt). The obvious irony in this case is that the great civil libertarian argued for a military trial and reje

Born on Feb. 12, 1809, in a log cabin in backwoods Hardin co. , Ky. His father, Thomas Lincoln, was a migratory carpenter and farmer, nearly always poverty-stricken. Little is know

For 32 years, a portrait of a serene Mary Todd Lincoln hung in the governor's mansion in Springfield, Ill. , signed by Francis Bicknell Carpenter, a celebrated painter who lived at the White House for six months in 1864. The story behind the picture was c

The con, however, dates to the late 1920s, when the portrait was recast as that of Mary Todd Lincoln, he said. For 32 years, a portra