For all his modesty and wartime preoccupation, the 16th president was one of the most photographed men of his time, with a ...

Lincoln’s time as a young man on the make had made him think hard about the relationship between Americans and their government. In his era, elite southern enslavers insisted that government had no ...

Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.

Abraham Lincoln is widely considered one of the most influential presidents in American history. He was the 16th president ...

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

Historians consistently rank Abraham Lincoln as the greatest U.S. president. Without his leadership and political brilliance, ...