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 ...

He led his nation through the most difficult times it had known, restoring a shattered Union ... Party in 1856. Two years later, in a battle that made national headlines, Lincoln fought Democrat ...

He added, “We must extinguish our resentments if we expect harmony and union.” It is all too easy to make comparisons between Lincoln ... an assistant editor of National Affairs.

The village where Abraham Lincoln came of age is deteriorating. Lincoln lived in New Salem, Illinois, as a young man from ...

In addition to being president, Abraham Lincoln was the post-master of New Salem; he also offered services as a wood chopper, county deputy surveyor, and lawyer. Abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room ...

Born: December 29, 1808, in Raleigh, North Carolina... A Southern supporter of the Union who balanced the ticket in Abraham Lincoln's 1864 reelection, Johnson led the Southern Reconstruction ...

He led his nation through the most difficult times it had known, restoring a shattered Union ... Party in 1856. Two years later, in a battle that made national headlines, Lincoln fought Democrat ...

Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln remains ... barely a month after Lincoln took office, Confederate forces fired on Union troops at Fort Sumter, South Carolina ...