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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Lincoln had struggled to heal the wounds of war, yet he became one of its last victims, and the war left the country no less divided. Abraham Lincoln ... into a one-story house in Springfield ...