In his 1863 Gettysburg Address, he argued that the war must lead to “a new birth of freedom” or it would have been fought in vain. Major Acts In practical terms, the achievements of Abraham Lincoln ...

Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln remains a tragic historical figure, gunned down by an assassin just days after winning the nation's bloodiest war. A Republican ...

Lincoln had struggled to heal the wounds of war, yet he became one of its last victims, and the war left the country no less divided. Abraham Lincoln grew up on the American frontier. Born in a ...

It was Abraham Lincoln who inaugurated the Republican ... cloaks and coats and pantaloons", he insisted, according to a biography of him by David Herbert Donald. Getty Images Lincoln didn't ...

Abraham Lincoln richly deserves his own day instead of getting mashed into the employer-convenient “President's Day.” Doubtless he deserves his own holiday as a martyr fighting to preserve the ...