SACRAMENTO — A lost family heirloom that dates back to the Civil War has returned to its rightful owners in Sacramento. A framed portrait of Abraham Lincoln dates back to 1865. It was the same ...

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 ...

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But images have been doctored for literally hundreds of years – including one of the most iconic portraits of Abraham Lincoln ... John C Calhoun portrait morphed into a Lincoln portrait ...

In this lesson, students interrogate their own assumptions about Abraham ... of Lincoln’s life that have become legend and those that have been forgotten by history. It was April of 1865.

When Abraham Lincoln was preparing his speech for his second inaugural in 1865, historians think he cut the sentences and paragraphs from a printed draft and pasted them onto the copy he planned ...

This, no doubt, is true of any really great statesman, but it was remarkably so of Abraham Lincoln. As a tree may be known by its fruits, so may his growing strength, his ripening sagacity and ...

Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham ... Lincoln's surprising election in 1860 helped spark the war itself. His Gettysburg Address (1863) and Second Inaugural Address (1865 ...