On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States -- an event that outraged southern states. The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many ...

Mounted cavalry troops lined the streets from the president-elect’s hotel to the Capitol, and sharpshooters stood on rooftops ...

In the election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln ran against John C ... In 1860, Lincoln was the first ever president to be elected with less than 50% of the vote. In the election of 1864, he ran against ...

President Abraham Lincoln died in Washington, D.C., on this day in history, April 15, 1865, one day after he was shot by actor John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln, who was elected president in 1860, was ...

Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham ... speech, Lincoln criticized President Buchanan, denounced slavery, and declared "a house divided cannot stand." In 1860, he defeated ...

Public DomainA late 19th-century illustration of Abraham Lincoln wrestling hometown bully Jack Armstrong. He has been mythologized as one of the greatest Americans to ever be elected president ...

The birthday of Abraham Lincoln, who served as the 16th President of the United States ... Lincoln made his bid for the highest seat in the land in 1860 as a moderate in the new Republican Party.

When Abraham Lincoln made his famous Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863, his words weren’t supposed to live on in history. In fact, the 16th president wasn’t even the primary speaker that ...

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 ... But in 1834, he was elected to the ...

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 ... But in 1834, he was elected to the ...