Some U.S. presidents are well-known for their love of drinking alcohol. But was Abraham Lincoln one of them, or was 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 ...

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.

As early as 1849, Abraham Lincoln ... all slaves in the United States. Rather, it declared free only those slaves living in states not under Union control. William Seward, Lincoln's secretary ...

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 ...

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 ...

Abraham Lincoln, celebrated on his 216th birthday, left a significant impact as the 16th President of the US. Not only known for his leadership during the Civil War and efforts to abolish slavery, ...

On March 4, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated for a second term of office. With the end of the Civil War in sight, and just six weeks before his assassination, Lincoln declared: ...

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 ...

Last summer, an intern named Dan Martin at the Historic Films Archive in Greenport, New York, made an unexpected discovery. […] ...

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 ...