Phillip Stone, a Harrisonburg lawyer who has served as president of Bridgewater College and Sweet Briar College, holds an ...

Abraham Lincoln rose from poverty to become a self ... born in 1853 with all the energy of the baby of the family. He was extremely mischievous and as such, enjoyed the occasional prank.

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

When Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863, it took just six years before the first American football game was played on the holiday. My question is, what took so long?

Abraham Lincoln grew up on the American frontier. Born in a log cabin in the wilderness of Kentucky on February 12, 1809, Lincoln moved to Indiana with his family when he was seven. The 14 years ...

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 ...