: Re: Can I use prominent people in history to as characters in my fiction? I am a little puzzled. I want to set my story in a real era that happened; like say, the American civil wars during

Don't do it. You can mention Abraham Lincoln or whoever, but do so in a factual setting and do NOT tarnish his/her image.

For example, you can have Lincoln in the White House doing things he does as a President, but you can't have him walking the streets of China talking Chinese with locals, because that's not in line with the factual Lincoln. You can't have Lincoln getting drunk in a bar, because that tarnishes his image and also is NOT in line with who he was.

If you want to use Lincoln in a negative light, maybe he's a drunk in a parody, you need permission from his family.
Maybe Lincoln is dead, but his family lives on and they could be insulted and bring a lawsuit on you.

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