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

The letter is addressed to George Harrington; his descendants reportedly ... Normally, "we see Mary Todd Lincoln through the ...

A. 0. There are no direct descendants of Abraham Lincoln alive today. The only one of Lincoln’s sons to reach adulthood and have children of his own was Robert. Robert’s son Abraham had no ...

In the new documentary Lover of Men: The Untold Story of Abraham Lincoln, a group of scholars argue that the 16th President of the United States had sexual relationships with multiple men during ...

“Abraham Lincoln’s legacy belongs to the world ... and give us a glimpse into the lives of descendants he would never see,” Executive Director Christina Shutt said.

In addition to being president, Abraham Lincoln was the post-master of New Salem; he also offered services as a wood chopper, county deputy surveyor, and lawyer. Abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room ...

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 ...

Can we learn from the past? We must. Immediately after the Civil War, radical Republicans collaborated with President Abraham Lincoln to assist the newly freed slaves with a program called ...

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 ...