Major Acts In practical terms, the achievements of Abraham Lincoln are mammoth, yet simple to describe: he confronted the secession of the South and the dissolution of the Union with all the political ...

Every choice Johnson makes (or doesn’t make) in the postwar panic, every new vector point for the country ... It’s a distinctly casual feel, Abraham Lincoln: The Legend, only in the accurate ...

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 ...