The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 was a pivotal moment in American history, leading to Southern secession and the Civil ...

In 1864, amid the U.S. Civil War, Abraham Lincoln was elected to his second term as president. He was assassinated five ...

On Nov. 6, 1860, former Illinois congressman Abraham Lincoln of the Republican Party was elected president of the United ...

A seven-and-a-half-hour documentary "Abraham Lincoln" from historian Doris Kearns Goodwin debuts Sunday on the History Channel. It also will be shown on Monday and Tuesday. It airs each evening at 7 p ...

On Nov 6th, 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected president. And the rest is history.

The Bath historical village offers a unique Thanksgiving experience with costumed interpreters, traditional food, and crafts ...

In this lesson, students interrogate their own assumptions about Abraham Lincoln in order to arrive at a deeper understanding of who Lincoln was. They investigate primary source documents in order to ...

America’s 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, was born in Hodgenville, Kentucky, on this day in history, Feb. 12, 1809. Lincoln grew up in a poor family, the son of a Kentucky frontiersman — and ...

In a quiet testament to his friend, Abraham Linc personally handled William Johnson's wages and paid for his coffin.

Though Lincoln himself was not Jewish, his words of support drawn from the faith of history’s first Jew continue to serve as ...