"I have lost this battle because my force was too small. The Government must not & cannot hold me responsible for the result . . . . I have seen too many dead & wounded comrades to feel otherwise than ...

Abraham Lincoln spent his birthday in Cincinnati on Feb. 12, 1861, on his way from Springfield, Illinois, to the nation’s capital for his inauguration. The president-elect didn’t know what ...

The Danville that Abraham Lincoln knew is gone. With very few exceptions, all of the houses, churches, shops, schools and storefronts have been torn down and hauled off.

By the late 1840s, grounds for divorce in the state ... Stacy Pratt McDermott from the Papers of Abraham Lincoln project described 19th century Illinois divorce law as less patriarchal than ...

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

Learn more about Sarah Josepha Hale and why she so desperately wanted President Abraham Lincoln to adopt the idea ... of Thanksgiving for decades. In the 1840s, many states had an annual ...

Abraham Lincoln was born on this day in 1809 in Kentucky. He would go on to rank among the best presidents in U.S. history, and he still makes news headlines when referenced by today's politicians.