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

Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th president of the United States. His election was among the reasons that led to the ...

He was witty, charming and empathetic. He was a riveting speaker, a legendary statesman and the man who is considered to be one of the country’s greatest presidents. For the Carlsbad actor charged ...

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 1860, Republican Abraham Lincoln was elected 16th president of the United States. In 1861, Jefferson Davis was elected ...

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 ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. -- One of the most important African American leaders of the late 1800s was born in North Carolina, but his accomplishments and influence vanished from history for 100 years. Abraham ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nine generations separated Shem, the son of Noah, from Abraham. That is a long time and during the more than four centuries, civilization was growing. Following God’s scattering the people, ...

It was people like Gen. Abraham Shane who helped transform Tuscarawas County from a sparsely populated wilderness into a thriving, prosperous community in the early 19th century. Best known for the ...