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 ...

Abraham Lincoln is widely considered one of the United ... Jefferson Davis or Uncle Sam lies beaten in the background Excerpt from book The Martyr President; Our Grief and Our Duty, J.

The claim was endorsed by no less an eminence than Harold Holzer, chairman of the Abraham ... background, at least get the beard right.” For his part, Oakley never bought into Richter’s ...

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 ...

The only photograph of Abraham Lincoln in death almost never survived. When the assassinated president was laid out in his coffin in the rotunda of New York's City Hall for a viewing attended by ...

Lincoln and Juárez never met but kept close diplomatic ties for years, likely a factor in covert U.S. help against the invasion of Mexico.

Wayne C. "Doc" Temple, the indefatigable Abraham Lincoln scholar who wrote more than 20 books and hundreds of articles and book reviews, died in Chatham on March 31. Temple was 101 and still ...

A licensed embalmer Lee Eutsey shared his findings about the surgeons who conducted Lincoln's autopsy and the mystery of the whereabouts of the late president's brain.

Abraham Lincoln is widely considered one of the United ... Jefferson Davis or Uncle Sam lies beaten in the background Excerpt from book The Martyr President; Our Grief and Our Duty, J.

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 ...