ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS BORN on a mattress of corn husks in a nest of bear rugs on the morning of February 12, a Sabbath, ... both designed to equip youth for the arts of eloquence.

But there were clues in Lincoln's youth in southern Indiana that suggested latent greatness. He was an avid reader, devouring any book he could get his hands on in that book-starved frontier—all ...

Abraham Lincoln’s longtime law partner, William H. (“Billy”) Herndon, claimed to know Lincoln more intimately than anyone else. “Lincoln to the world is a profound mystery—an enigma—a ...

“Now, of course, Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address is famous, and far fewer people remember Edward Everett and his oration,” she said. 9. As a youth, he made his own math notebook.

Lincoln was reelected with 55 percent of the popular vote and 212 of 243 electoral votes in late 1864. On April 9, 1865, the war ended when General Robert E. Lee surrendered his forces at Appomattox.

A wooden mallet inlaid with the initials "A.L" was made by Abraham Lincoln, who used it during his Indiana youth to make furniture, Indiana State Museum officials said in unveiling ...

I first met William Bartelt at the Lincoln Pioneer Village in Rockford, Indiana, a city on the Ohio River in Spencer County and the place where a future president spent BOOKS: Remembering Abraham ...

With the obvious exception of its vampires, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter gets the broad strokes of the 16th U.S. President’s life right. The movie, based on the book by Seth Grahame-Smith ...