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

In addition to being president, Abraham ... of Lincoln prompted the South to begin to withdraw, or secede, from the Union. In 1860, Lincoln was the first ever president to be elected with less than 50 ...

With the benefit of hindsight we know this but contemporaries were not so privileged. Northerners were war weary because there was little to show for lengthening casualty lists and no end to the ...

Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham ... be free." Lincoln was reelected with 55 percent of the popular vote and 212 of 243 electoral votes in late 1864.