Christian McWhirter is the Lincoln Historian at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. He talked with The 21st about Lincoln’s evolving views on race and contemporary evolving views on Lincoln.

This year, the Magna Carta will turn 800 years old. The document, literally “Great Charter” when translated from Latin, is revered as the founding document of western democracy. Its language is found in many later key political documents including the US constitution and the Bill of Rights. But when Dan Jones dug into its history he found a very different story than we assume. Illinois Public Media's Amanda Honigfort talked with Jones about what he found.