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 ...

IT is yet too early to look for a full and satisfactory biography of one who in the ... fuller record of the private and public life of Abraham Lincoln which, on the cooling down of party strife ...

And the work he has given us is not only a biography of Lincoln and a history of the Civil ... and the harrowing uncertainty of its consequences; Father Abraham; the see-sawing of war’s fortunes ...

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 ...