Abraham Lincoln was an American hero — but a flawed one. As we celebrate his essential contributions to our country, let's ...

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 ...

On November 19, 1863, near the site of the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln offered 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...