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

Complementing this deeply personal text is the iconic Lincoln Bible, a velvet-bound artifact first used in 1861 to inaugurate Abraham Lincoln as the 16th President of the United States.

National Museum of American History Abraham Lincoln's Watch, around 1858 National Museum of African American History and Culture Photograph of James Brown, Civil War veteran, with a picture of Abraham ...

The election of Lincoln prompted the South to begin to withdraw, or secede, from the Union. In his first inaugural address, Lincoln delivered a final plea to the South to remain, but to no avail. War ...

On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President ... In his inaugural address, delivered on March 4, 1861, Lincoln proclaimed that it was his duty to maintain the Union.

President Lincoln, regarded by historians as one of the best presidents in history, was born on this day in 1809. He is frequently invoked by Trump.

Abraham Lincoln spent his birthday in Cincinnati on Feb. 12, 1861, on his way from Springfield ... who gave him a tour of his house (now the Taft Museum of Art). “I never expect to be in ...

Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln remains ... On April 12, 1861, barely a month after Lincoln took office, Confederate forces fired on Union troops at Fort ...