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

BLOOMINGTON ( 25News Now) - Illinois’ favorite son President Abraham Lincoln’s 215th birthday is Wednesday, Feb. 12, but the celebrations got underway in Bloomington on Saturday. The David Davis ...

Lincoln’s election was itself evidence of the sectional discord that had ripped the United States apart during the 1850s, as slavery became a critical political and a moral issue. As Lincoln had ...

Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln ... a single term in the House of Representatives (1847–49) and a return to practicing law, Lincoln was morally outraged ...