Abraham Lincoln served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. A self-taught lawyer with humble beginnings, Lincoln is best known for leading the country ...

Let’s finally kill that myth that several letter-writers are attempting to perpetuate regarding the cause of the Civil War. And we can let Abraham Lincoln settle it with his own words from his ...

Photo of Abraham Lincoln taken by Alexander Gardner during the Civil War in 1862. | Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain At 6 foot 4 inches, Lincoln remains the tallest president in U.S. history. And ...

Abraham Lincoln and the “Black Republican Party,” as the Southern press almost universally referred to his political home, had supposedly placed a Black man a heartbeat away from the presidency.

Abraham Lincoln overcame some of the most profound challenges to the American experiment. He’s not just a ticket to a three-day weekend.

IDAHO FALLS – Abraham Lincoln said goodbye to his friend for the last time as they left the meeting that afternoon. It was ...

CNN’s Scott Jennings attempted the unenviable task of translating what he thought former President Donald Trump meant earlier in the day when he suggested Abraham Lincoln could have “settled ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The document in which Abraham Lincoln set in motion the Union's military response to the launch of the U.S. Civil War is now among Illinois' prized papers of the 16th ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCIV) — An Emancipation Day Parade will be held in Charleston on Wednesday to commemorate the decree issued by President Abraham Lincoln that changed the trajectory of America ...