When Lincoln left Illinois and headed east for his inauguration, he told the crowd at the Springfield railroad station that he confronted challenges equal only to those that had faced the nation’s ...

Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.

Campaign Abraham Lincoln became president at the age of 52. Though Lincoln was involved with the Whig Party (which was formed to oppose Andrew Jackson and his use of presidential power) earlier on his ...

History remembers Abraham Lincoln as the Great Emancipator ... But some historians suspect that Lincoln first became incensed over slavery at age 19, when he witnessed a slave auction in New ...

National Park Service employees dust the statue of President Abraham Lincoln at the ... As he spoke when he first became president, Lincoln said, “insurgent agents were in the city seeking ...

“A house divided against itself, cannot stand.’ I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.” 37 —Abraham Lincoln The Civil War was about slavery, although ...