When Lincoln left Illinois and headed east for his inauguration, he told the crowd at the Springfield railroad station that he confronted challenges equal only to those that had faced the nation’s ...
Looking back, he might have preferred his mom's home cooking. But Abraham Lincoln's elegant last meal with his wife became ...
Over 100 years after his death, Anderson Ruffin Abbott's visit to the White House and his relationship with U.S. President ...
A black man has ascended to the White House 200 years after the birth of the president who ended slavery. History remembers Abraham Lincoln as ... suspect that Lincoln first became incensed ...
“A house divided against itself, cannot stand.’ I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.” 37 —Abraham Lincoln The Civil War was about slavery, although ...
Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln remains a tragic historical ... Well-liked, he was elected to the lower house of the Illinois State Legislature in 1834.
Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided weaves together the lives of the two Lincolns, drawing us into their long-vanished world.