Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham ... after Lincoln took office, Confederate forces fired on Union troops at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, and the Civil War began.

Learn about Abraham Lincoln (sixteenth president, 1861–1865) through museum art and artifacts from across the Smithsonian. The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery collection reflects many faces of ...

An 1860 lithograph of a young Abraham Lincoln. | Wikipedia The post Historian says Lincoln won Civil War with ‘the idea of ...

Armistice Day in 1930 brought a massive crowd to downtown Spokane to see the unveiling of the Abraham Lincoln statue at ... of Union soldiers from the Civil War, while some were still alive.

On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the ... Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia ...