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 ...

The history of our nation’s leaders includes many known and unknown facts, some so peculiar that they may have you raising an eyebrow. From Abraham Lincoln ... Taft’s (very true) affinity ...

The only photograph of Abraham Lincoln in death almost never survived. When the assassinated president was laid out in his coffin in the rotunda of New York's City Hall for a viewing attended by ...

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 ...

This, no doubt, is true of any really great statesman, but it was remarkably so of Abraham Lincoln. As a tree may ... beyond these facts, we know little of his earliest years.

Mr. LINCOLN, after quoting some previous remarks, thus spoke of this very subject: "Now, gentlemen, I don't want to read at any greater length, but this is the true complexion of all I have ever ...

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 ...