Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. February 23 rd marks one of the oddest anniversaries in American history, as President-elect Abraham Lincoln was smuggled in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With an eye toward America’s 250 th birthday in 2026, Bristol will dedicate the spot where Abraham Lincoln delivered brief remarks ...

Standing on the platform of the rear passenger car on Feb. 11, 1861, the day before his 52nd birthday, Lincoln could see before him a crowd of 1,000 people. Raising his hands for silence, he told them ...

On this day in 1861, the first year of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln watched as a Union Army reconnaissance balloon rose 500 feet above the Executive Mansion. “I have the pleasure,” ...

On this day in 1861, President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrived unexpectedly at the Willard Hotel. Located one block from the Executive Mansion, the hotel had served as a center of political life since ...

Abraham Lincoln and New York City will always be linked by Lincoln’s legendary speech at Cooper Union in 1860 (which we will cover on February 27), but on February 19, 1861, Lincoln set foot in New ...

Abraham Lincoln spent his birthday in Cincinnati on Feb. 12, 1861, on his way from Springfield, Illinois, to the nation’s capital for his inauguration. The president-elect didn’t know what kind of ...

TROY — As many as 30,000 people, one newspaper would estimate, packed themselves into a train station on Sixth Avenue on Feb. 19, 1861, to await the arrival of President-elect Abraham Lincoln in the ...

THE inception of the late war between the States, the causes which led to it, and the motives and conduct of those in authority on either side who waged the fratricidal strife, will long remain a ...

I start my journey, as Lincoln did, at the Great Western Depot at 930 W. Monroe St. It’s a two-story, red-brick structure with a low-slung roof that gives it a squat appearance. Every generation, it ...