On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the ... Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia ...

Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham ... after Lincoln took office, Confederate forces fired on Union troops at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, and the Civil War began.

Finally, constitutionally and politically, Lincoln had to grapple with the evolving meaning of the Civil ... the war must lead to “a new birth of freedom” or it would have been fought in vain. Major ...

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

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

Lincoln’s time as a young man on the make had made him think hard about the relationship between Americans and their ...

President Lincoln, regarded by historians as one of the best presidents in history, was born on this day in 1809. He is frequently invoked by Trump.