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

“A house divided against itself, cannot stand.’ I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.” 37 —Abraham Lincoln The Civil War was about slavery, although ...

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 ...