Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin helped shape the modern world. Illustration by Joe ... We can find plenty of radical ideas in that day, just as we will find traces of the astonishing ideas ...

Major Acts In practical terms, the achievements of Abraham Lincoln are mammoth ... he laid the foundations of the modern state. Legacy Lincoln’s legacy is based on his momentous achievements: he ...

He kept his promise and issued the Emancipation Proclamation on New Year’s Day in 1863. In the Homestead Act ... he laid the foundations of a modern economy. Legacy Abraham Lincoln transformed the ...

Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia that day to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at a home in ...

Abraham Lincoln’s wrestling career — though impressive — is rarely mentioned in modern-day presidential biographies. Indeed, ...

It was 150 years ago Tuesday that President Abraham Lincoln was shot to death by John Wilkes Booth, and to mark the anniversary, The Associated Press dusted off its original report of the ...

Abraham Lincoln’s Birthplace ... As for the popular image of Lincoln the Railsplitter, it is true. As a young man, Lincoln earned wages as a day laborer, and one of his many tasks was to ...

"Doc" Temple, the indefatigable Abraham Lincoln ... of the so-called Lincoln fraternity. That generation was all about encouraging and advising each other, sitting around the modern equivalent ...