Norman Hapgood, son of Alton's Hapgood Plow Factory founder, featured Lincoln's rare portrait and autobiography in his 1899 ...

Major Acts In practical terms, the achievements of Abraham Lincoln are mammoth, yet simple to describe: he confronted the secession of the South and the dissolution of the Union with all the political ...

Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln remains a tragic historical figure, gunned down by an assassin just days after winning the nation's bloodiest war. A Republican ...

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

Owing to this apparent singleness of heart and purpose, a biography of Lincoln is the ... towards a life of Abraham Lincoln, will be secure of readers. Originally of Quaker origin and of ...

President Abraham Lincoln died in Washington ... notes his official biography on the White House website. Despite his lack of formal education, Lincoln became an established lawyer and received ...

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

Lincoln had struggled to heal the wounds of war, yet he became one of its last victims, and the war left the country no less divided. Abraham Lincoln grew up on the American frontier. Born in a ...