Phillip Stone, a Harrisonburg lawyer who has served as president of Bridgewater College and Sweet Briar College, holds an ...

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 ...

Learn more about Sarah Josepha Hale and why she so desperately wanted President Abraham Lincoln to adopt the idea ... of Thanksgiving for decades. In the 1840s, many states had an annual ...

By the late 1840s, grounds for divorce in the state ... Stacy Pratt McDermott from the Papers of Abraham Lincoln project described 19th century Illinois divorce law as less patriarchal than ...

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 ...