On April 15, 1861, after Fort Sumter fell to Confederate Army forces, Pres. Abraham Lincoln issued his call to arms for ...

“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” —Abraham Lincoln (1861–1865) 3. “If wrinkles must be written on our brow, let them not be written on our heart. The spirit should never ...

Abraham Lincoln, 1861-1865 "This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be warped to the purposes of a casually ascendant influence." ...

about a question on which she had stitched her opinion six months earlier, in the famed bedspread inscribed: “Abraham Lincoln 1861-1865” “Calvin Coolidge 1923-1929.” Brule. The vacation at ...

Abraham Lincoln’s coffin from the White House to the Capitol Rotunda on April 19, 1865. Though less well known, Brig. Gen. William A Nichols was also a pallbearer to the fallen president ...

Presidents Day offers a valuable opportunity to revisit Abraham Lincoln’s leadership ... In the early spring of 1865, Lincoln had leverage. He was at the peak of his power.

On a February afternoon in 1864, Abraham Lincoln stood outside the White House, waiting impatiently for the presidential carriage he had summoned for a trip down Pennsylvania Avenue to Mathew ...

In 1862, Abraham Lincoln held a forum to consider a potential solution to the country’s conflict: What if all free Black people left the U.S. and settled in Central America? The president’s ...