For all his modesty and wartime preoccupation, the 16th president was one of the most photographed men of his time, with a ...

Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.

Abraham Lincoln ran against John C. Breckinridge (Southern Democrat), John Bell (Constitutional Union), and Stephen A. Douglas (Northern Democrat). At this time, there were thirty-three states in the ...

As early as 1849, Abraham ... on January 1 Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation declared, "all persons held as slaves within any States, or designated part of the ...

This, no doubt, is true of any really great statesman, but it was remarkably so of Abraham Lincoln. As a tree may ... that this fear on the part of the South of a Republican President was not ...