Discussions with his Cabinet now turned to the delicate matter of the reconstruction of the South. With characteristic compassion, Lincoln declared that “no one need expect me to take any part ...

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Abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room log cabin in Hardin County ... The reason he waited is because his cabinet felt that it was prudent for Lincoln to wait for a moment of triumph, in order to ...

For all his modesty and wartime preoccupation, the 16th president was one of the most photographed men of his time, with a ...

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 ...

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

Ansary in “Dealmaker-In-Chief.” Abraham Lincoln chose for his cabinet very capable individuals who were his rivals for the Republican nomination to be president: William Seward, Salmon Chase ...

President Donald Trump demanded that Senate Republicans “get tough very fast” in confirming the rest of his Cabinet, ...

Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln ... of modern rhetoric, Lincoln's surprising election in 1860 helped spark the war itself. His Gettysburg Address (1863) and ...