President Abraham Lincoln called for a National Day of humiliation, fasting and prayer for the end of the Civil War, a time of great distress and death for our nation. Today, ...

In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday ... Established in 1879, the festival celebrates the harvest and other blessings of the past year. Canadian celebrations look ...

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 ...

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 ...