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

Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln was elected as the 16th president of the United States on 1860. Within weeks of his ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

If you’ve ever held a penny, memorized the Gettysburg Address in school or visited that big marble memorial in Washington, you’ve heard of Abraham Lincoln. But you’ve probably never heard of Abraham ...