Abraham Lincoln won election to the U.S. Congress in 1846. As a Congressman, he criticized the United States' participation in the Mexican War. Still, he worked to help Zachary Taylor, a hero of ...

Donald Trump boasted about his prospects of winning the 2024 presidential election, suggesting that he would even win in a hypothetical bout against former presidents Abraham Lincoln and George ...

President complains that opposition would have dragged their heels on appointing George Washington and Abraham Lincoln as he grows impatient over slow progress in assembling his team ...

Abraham Lincoln won election to the U.S. Congress in 1846. As a Congressman, he criticized the United States' participation in the Mexican War. Still, he worked to help Zachary Taylor, a hero of ...

With the benefit of hindsight we know this but contemporaries were not so privileged. Northerners were war weary because there was little to show for lengthening casualty lists and no end to the ...

“The prospect of success was much brighter than before, for Abraham Lincoln had become ... Southern States at any expense, but Lincoln “refused to vote for several of these regularly digested ...

We’ve all heard Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address. One of the unforgettable lines reads “that government of the people, by ...

Campaign Abraham Lincoln became president at the age of 52. Though Lincoln was involved with the Whig Party (which was formed to oppose Andrew Jackson and his use of presidential power) earlier on his ...

The election of Lincoln prompted the South to begin to withdraw ... Major Acts In practical terms, the achievements of Abraham Lincoln are mammoth, yet simple to describe: he confronted the secession ...