18 September 2017 Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, Inc. is happy to announce a partnership with Shattered Globe Theatre. Their current production, The Heavens Are Hung With Black, examines Abraham Lincoln’s days between the death of Willie Lincoln and the issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Celebrating it’s debut in Illinois, The Heavens are Hung With Black was … Continue reading Our Partnership with
Shattered Globe Theatre →

Daniel Weinberg talked with Water Stahr on A House Divided in August. Stahr’s book, Stanton: Lincoln’s War Secretary.  Walter Stahr, award-winning author of the New York Times bestseller Seward, tells the story of Abraham Lincoln’s indispensable Secretary of War, Edwin Stanton, the man the president entrusted with raising the army that preserved the Union. Of the crucial men … Continue reading Walter Stahr on A House Divided →

Chicago is all abuzz about the Centennial of Gwendolyn Brooks’ birthday. One of the most highly regarded, highly influential, and widely read poets of 20th-century American poetry, Brooks was a much-honored poet, even in her lifetime, with the distinction of being the first black author to win the Pulitzer Prize. Born in Topeka Kansas in … Continue reading Gwendolyn Brooks Centennial →

31 July 2017 One of the most rewarding parts of our jobs here are Abraham Lincoln Book Shop is the opportunity to find the right homes for the objects that come through the shop. What’s even more rewarding is learning what happens to these objects after they leave our hands. Today’s Chicago Tribune brings us … Continue reading Iannelli Bust to Be Reproduced, Displayed in Paris! →

On June 8, Sidney Blumenthal talked with  Daniel Weinberg  on A House Divided. Blumenthal discussed Wrestling with His Angel, the second installment of Blumenthal’s four-volume Lincoln biography. Order your signed copy today.   Volume 1, A Self-Made Man, is also available. Volume II of Sidney Blumenthal’s acclaimed, landmark biography, The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, reveals the future president’s genius during the most decisive period of his … Continue reading Sidney Blumenthal on A House Divided →