When Abraham Lincoln was preparing ... to be elected to nonconsecutive terms. Lincoln’s second inaugural came in the waning ...

National Park Service employees dust the statue of President Abraham ... speech is exhausted. The Civil War had been grinding on for almost four years, though it was nearly over by March 1865 ...

Bush declared the end of major combat in Iraq in front of a banner reading, “mission accomplished,” in a now-infamous speech on May 1, 2003, aboard the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln off the ...

Washington, DC – Two decades ago, on May 1, 2003, then-US President George W Bush declared “major combat operations in Iraq have ended” in a speech aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln ...

In “Abraham ... Gurley and Lincoln than for any other person not directly involved in government or the war effort. One outcome of this connection was apparent as Lincoln’s speeches and ...

Despite being president for only four years—from March 1861 to April 1865—Abraham Lincoln ... war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.” —Speech ...

President Abraham Lincoln ... victory allowed Lincoln to pursue his vision for victory and post-war America, which he famously outlined in his deeply elegant second inaugural address on March ...

Abraham Lincoln was born on this day in 1809 in Kentucky. He would go on to rank among the best presidents in U.S. history, and he still makes news headlines when referenced by today's politicians.

Abraham Lincoln ... World War II. His only overseas visit to the theater of war -- which encapsulated much of Europe -- was on Dec. 8, 1943. On the second anniversary of his famous speech on ...

Guelzo set out to inquire into Abraham Lincoln’s faith in democracy. Not only did President Lincoln lead the nation into and out of civil war ... in his writings and speeches, and nowhere ...

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 ...