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EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Emmy nominee and SAG Award winner Matt Walsh has boarded the Apple Original limited series Manhunt about the Lincoln assassination and aftermath. Walsh will play Dr. Samuel Mudd, who treated John Wilkes Booth’s broken leg the night President Abraham Lincoln was shot. Mudd did not report Booth to…

The History Channel will air a new Abraham Lincoln documentary over Presidents Day weekend from Feb. 20 starting at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Abraham Lincoln is based on Doris Kearns Goodwin’s best-selling book Leadership: In Turbulent Times. Across seven and a half hours, viewers will learn about the life of the 16th President…

Abraham Lincoln‘s complex journey to end slavery will be explored in the upcoming docuseries from Apple TV+, Lincoln’s Dilemma. The four-parter, based on David S. Reynolds’ book Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times, is set to premiere on Feb. 18. Lincoln’s Dilemma, set against the background of the Civil War, will be…

Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner’s interview with President Donald Trump aired on Friday, and one of the more puzzling moments came when he talked about what he had done for Black communities. During one point in the interview, Faulkner asked Trump about the revitalization of areas via opportunity zones. She asked him…

The numbers are in and they show more than half of Republicans think Donald Trump is a better president than Abraham Lincoln. According to a new survey conducted by The Economist/YouGov, 53% of the people polled said they prefer Trump over Lincoln. That’s compared to 47% who chose Honest Abe. The results didn’t sit…

Jon Stewart came out from his lair under Colbert’s Late Show desk to address President Donald Trump after seeing how worn down his friend was becoming by the daily dose of bad news from Trumpville: Hello Donald it's me – the guy you made sure everyone knew was Jewish, on Twitter. Stewart told Trump he knows that he…

Republicans are following President Donald Trump “over an ideological cliff,” Morning Joe‘s Joe Scarborough began this week, expanding on his previous week’s Late Show announcement that he is parting company with the GOP. The GOP has “devolved into a party without a cause, dominated by a leader hopelessly ill-informed…

President Obama, responding to a question about Fox News Channel host Bill O'Reilly's criticism of his appearance on Funny or Die's Between Two Ferns, said today that President Lincoln had a sense of humor. ESPN Radio's Colin Cowherd asked Obama today about criticism that Abraham Lincoln would not have appeared on the…

EXCLUSIVE: The 16th U.S. president continues to a hot box office commodity. The next film about Abraham Lincoln is The Green Blade Rises, and Diane Kruger has been set to play Sarah Lincoln, Abe’s beautiful stepmother. The film was written and will be directed by AJ Edwards, with Terrence Malick producing with Nicolas…

EXCLUSIVE: So this now means 20th Century Fox is getting behind both Steven Spielberg’s earnest Lincoln biopic as well as Tim Burton’s horror genre film Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter. (“Preferably not releasing them at the same time,” one insider told me.) Such is the dichotomy of Hollywood these days. Or, as one of…

David Strathairn has been set for a key role in Lincoln by director Steven Spielberg. He’ll play William Seward, Abraham Lincoln’s Secretary of State, an outspoken abolitionist and a core member of Lincoln’s wartime cabinet. He joins Daniel Day-Lewis as Lincoln and Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln. The DreamWorks film…

Los Angeles, CA (April 13, 2011) – Two-time Academy Award winner Sally Field will star as Mary Todd Lincoln, wife to the 16th President of the United States, in DreamWorks Studios' "Lincoln" to be directed by Steven Spielberg. The announcement was made today by Spielberg and Stacey Snider, Co-Chairman and CEO of…