On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States -- an event that outraged ... and in May 1863 the War Department established the Bureau of Colored Troops.

When Lincoln ... 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 and practical tools at his ...

he switched parties becoming the first Republican president of the United States. In the election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln ran against John C. Breckinridge (Southern Democrat), John Bell ...

This, no doubt, is true of any really great statesman, but it was remarkably so of Abraham Lincoln ... and defend the constitution of the United States. I could not take the office without ...

Abraham Lincoln won election to the U.S. Congress in 1846. As a Congressman, he criticized the United States' participation in the Mexican War. Still, he worked to help Zachary Taylor, a hero of ...

5 (UPI) --A 1915 silent film about Abraham Lincoln was thought to be lost forever ... A Massachusetts police department said a reported bear sighting in the city was most likely something else ...