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

On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States -- an event that outraged southern states. The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many ...

In the election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln ran against John C. Breckinridge (Southern Democrat), John Bell (Constitutional Union), and Stephen A. Douglas (Northern Democrat). At this time, there were ...

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

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Historians consistently rank Abraham Lincoln as the greatest U.S. president. Without his leadership and political brilliance, ...

President Abraham Lincoln died in Washington, D.C., on this day in history, April 15, 1865, one day after he was shot by actor John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln, who was elected president in 1860 ...

“Abraham Lincoln: His Life in Print” is on view through ... he had to persuade voters to elect him. In 1860, four main candidates were on the ballot: Lincoln, John C. Breckinridge, Stephen ...

Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln never spoke to one another in ... written sometime during the fall and winter of 1860-61, their imagined conversation begins. The print-obsessed Whitman loved ...

It’s a slip, not a fall,” Abraham Lincoln said after his loss in his legendary 1858 Illinois Senate contest against Stephen Douglas. Liz Cheney apparently has the same attitude after her ...

Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln remains ... elegant phrases of modern rhetoric, Lincoln's surprising election in 1860 helped spark the war itself.