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

For all his modesty and wartime preoccupation, the 16th president was one of the most photographed men of his time, with a ...

Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.

The birthday of Abraham ... Lincoln lived in Illinois, and was skilled in a multitude of trades including stints as a postmaster, surveyor and shopkeeper, according to History.com. As his ...