Wayne C. "Doc" Temple, the indefatigable Abraham Lincoln scholar who wrote more than 20 books and hundreds of articles and ...

When Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office for his second term as president, the United States was divided as never before or since. The Civil War had killed over 600,000 Americans, North and South.

Lincoln, a clean-shaven 22-year-old with the barest of formal schooling, had set out in 1831 to haul freight down the Mississippi River to New Orleans when he snagged his flatboat on the Sangamon ...

Lincoln scholar Wayne 'Doc' Temple studied under James G. Randall at the University of Illinois. Temple worked for more than five decades as the state's deputy chief archivist. Wayne C. "Doc ...