Trump's habit is to treat Lincoln not only as a giant of history, but something of a political contemporary. And a flawed one at that.

Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln remains a tragic historical ... he defeated a field of four candidates to become the 16th president of the United States ...

On the hotly contested issue of US race relations, President Trump made a reference to Abraham Lincoln - the 16th US president whose victory in the Civil War secured the abolition of slavery.

During the months between his election and his inauguration as America’s 16th president, Abraham Lincoln avoided saying ...

Ask students to tell you some facts they know about Abraham Lincoln. (Possible Answers: He was the 16th President of the ... after being re-elected to the presidency. Point out to students that ...

he worked hard to become America’s 16th president. When Lincoln was elected president, America erupted into a bloody Civil ...

he told the crowd at the Springfield railroad station that he confronted challenges equal only to those that had faced the nation’s first president: Washington had had to create a nation; Lincoln now ...

he switched parties becoming the first Republican president of the United States. In the election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln ran against John C. Breckinridge (Southern Democrat), John Bell ...