When Abraham Lincoln was preparing ... was soon to be over. American slavery was ending. And parts of the South were devastated. Lincoln wanted to address what had happened and why, and find ...

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

On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States -- an event that outraged southern states. The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many ...

That All Men Are Created Equal” features bills of sale, reward posters and more to explain slavery’s role in the Civil War, ...

As Lincoln had remarked, “A house divided against itself [over slavery ... Address, he argued that the war must lead to “a new birth of freedom” or it would have been fought in vain. Major Acts In ...

Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln ... In his acceptance speech, Lincoln criticized President Buchanan, denounced slavery, and declared "a house divided cannot ...

This, no doubt, is true of any really great statesman, but it was remarkably so of Abraham Lincoln. As a tree may ... “I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.