Building on his earlier classic work, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America, Carwardine observes that the Whigs, ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Major Acts In practical terms, the achievements of Abraham Lincoln are mammoth, yet simple to describe: he confronted the secession of the South and the dissolution of the Union with all the political ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.