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

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

In 1860, Lincoln was the first ever president to be elected with less than 50% of the vote. In the election of 1864, he ran against George B. McClellan, in the midst of civil war. The United States ...

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 ...

Before long, he’s spilling out stories about Lincoln—the town and the president (“Abraham ... This daguerreotype, made shortly after he was elected to the U.S. Congress, is his earliest ...

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 ...

Well-liked, he was elected to the lower house of the ... In his acceptance speech, Lincoln criticized President Buchanan, denounced slavery, and declared "a house divided cannot stand." ...

As the nation approaches the second inauguration Monday of President-elect Donald ... after Grover Cleveland, to be elected to nonconsecutive terms. Lincoln’s second inaugural came in the ...

George Washington of Virginia, the commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, was elected the first ...

The Nebraska Board of Regents has selected agri-businessman Paul Kenney to lead the elected board overseeing the University ...