Major Acts In practical terms, the achievements of Abraham Lincoln ... more realistic to see Lincoln as a practical genius. Temperamentally, he was humane, tolerant, and patient. But he also had an ...

Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham ... Lincoln's death at a time when the nation needed him most, to finish the task he had begun, is considered one of the saddest events ...

Reconstruction of the South, 1857. Library of Congress. January 1: President Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that the majority of the nation's slave population ...

The episode begins with the presidential election of 1864 that sets Abraham Lincoln against his old commanding general, George McClellan. The stakes are nothing less than the survival of the Union ...