Fellow-Citizens of the United States: In compliance with a custom as old as the Government itself, I appear before you to address you briefly ... All members of Congress swear their support ...

When Abraham Lincoln was ... “We don’t have proof” that Lincoln did the cutting and pasting, said Michelle Krowl, a Civil War historian at the Library of Congress. But Lincoln was so ...

Memorial Day is an appropriate time to reread Abraham Lincoln’s sublime Gettysburg Address honoring Civil War dead.

President Abraham Lincoln offered a short but seminal vision of the past and promise of the United States in a speech known ...

On this date 160 years ago, President Abraham Lincoln was sworn in to his ... some history of his own as he addresses a joint session of Congress — and a nation divided over his whirlwind ...

Despite being president for only four years—from March 1861 to April 1865—Abraham Lincoln was incredibly ... Cooper Union Address, New York, February 27, 1860 2. “Now, as to the young ...

The claim: In 1861, 11 senators and three U.S. House members were expelled from Congress for refusing to acknowledge Abraham Lincoln's electoral win Amid reports that some House Republicans are ...

Treasured artifacts associated with President Abraham Lincoln were on the auction block Wednesday, separated from a ...