In 1858, after winning the Republican nomination for the Senate against incumbent Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln gave a ...

The unboxing of the Lincoln Rocker at Greenfield Village in 1930. Henry Ford documented the chair's arrival and unboxing. It was moved to the museum in 1979, but in the early 1990s, conservators ...

Harrison was the grandson of the 9th president, William Henry Harrison, ... Horace Greeley’s “open letter” to Abraham Lincoln, dated August 19, 1862, ...

Introduction -- Introduction of Abraham Lincoln at Cooper Union (1860) / William Cullen Bryant -- From Live of Abraham Lincoln (1860) / William Dean Howells -- From Lincoln on the eve of '61 (1860) / ...

In remarks at Independence Hall in 1861, President Abraham Lincoln shared the roots of his political philosophy while ...

This lesson explores Abraham Lincoln's use of the telegraph during the Civil War. ... Summarize the telegram that Henry Halleck sent to George B. McClellan “a couple weeks after the battle. ...

A jackknife, some news clippings, two pairs of folded reading glasses, a monogrammed handkerchief, a $5 Confederate bill. Such were among the items recovered from Abraham Lincoln's pockets the ...

Lincoln’s astonishing reply we’ll discuss in moment. Horace Greeley’s “open letter” to Abraham Lincoln, dated August 19, 1862, and published the following morning, was really an ...