Before he became the president that carried America through the Civil War and emancipated the nation's slaves, Abraham ...

Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln remains a tragic historical figure, gunned down by an assassin just days after winning the nation's bloodiest war. A Republican ...

Norman Hapgood, son of Alton's Hapgood Plow Factory founder, featured Lincoln's rare portrait and autobiography in his 1899 ...

Owing to this apparent singleness of heart and purpose, a biography of Lincoln ... of newspaper writers and book-makers, towards a life of Abraham Lincoln, will be secure of readers.

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

In a 1926 book called Abraham Lincoln ... According to the 1960 book Colonel Elmer Ellsworth: A Biography of Lincoln's Friend and First Hero of the Civil War by Ruth Painter Randall, Lincoln ...

Lincoln had struggled to heal the wounds of war, yet he became one of its last victims, and the war left the country no less divided. Abraham Lincoln grew up on the American frontier. Born in a ...