In 1858, after winning the Republican nomination for the Senate against incumbent Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln gave a speech that has stood the test of time because of the truth it laid plain ...

The Lincoln Memorial was built to honour Abraham Lincoln. Test your knowledge of the iconic Lincoln Memorial! Explore its ...

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, ...

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 ...

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) / ...

Often considered our greatest president, Abraham Lincoln ... (Henry Holt, 465 pp., * * * ½ out of four) proves. Von Drehle opens his book on Jan. 1, 1862, and closes it exactly one year later.

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 ...