Abraham Lincoln had a love-hate relationship with ... More than 150,000 people turned out on Broadway to see Lincoln lying in state at City Hall. His martyrdom brought a deep emotional response.

where the 39th president now lies in state on the catafalque first used for Abraham Lincoln. Carter, who died at age 100 on Dec. 29, was eulogized by Vice President Kamala Harris, Senate Majority ...

As early as 1849, Abraham ... 1 Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation declared, "all persons held as slaves within any States, or designated part of the State, the ...

Major Acts In practical terms, the achievements of Abraham ... of state activity, such as the approval of a transcontinental railway and the Morrill Act to settle western lands, he laid the ...

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 ... in the Illinois State Legislature.