Documents from the National Archive show that then President Abraham Lincoln pardoned one of President Joe Biden's ancestors ...

This is the week we recall the birth of Abraham Lincoln. Although we don’t single out his birthday as a nation any longer, ...

National Museum of American History Abraham Lincoln's Watch, around 1858 National Museum of African American History and Culture Photograph of James Brown, Civil War veteran, with a picture of Abraham ...

Abraham Lincoln is widely considered one of the United States’ best presidents. He authored the Emancipation Proclamation, ended the Civil War by defeating the Confederacy, and was instrumental ...

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 ...

National Park Service employees dust the statue of President Abraham ... The Civil War had been grinding on for almost four years, though it was nearly over by March 1865. Lincoln doesn’t ...

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.