Abraham Lincoln said goodbye to his friend for the last time as they left the meeting that afternoon. It was Friday, April 14 ...

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 ...

Abraham Lincoln didn’t enter his wrestling match with Jack Armstrong as a novice. According to historian Ronald C. White Jr., who wrote A. Lincoln: A Biography, Abraham Lincoln’s wrestling ...

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 ...

“Abraham Lincoln and his friend Joshua Speed ... Speed has been debated since the early 20th century. In one Lincoln biography published in 1926, author Carl Sandburg wrote that the pair ...

President Abraham Lincoln died in Washington ... notes his official biography on the White House website. Despite his lack of formal education, Lincoln became an established lawyer and received ...

He was named after his father's favorite president, Abraham Lincoln, who, probably not coincidentally, was the subject of the work that made Gutzon's national reputation as a sculptor.

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 ...