GHENT, WV (WVNS) — When we think of the most legendary presidents our nation has had, Abraham ... to Lincoln’s rise to the presidency and Sickles becoming a general in the Civil War, they ...

Finally, constitutionally and politically, Lincoln had to grapple with the evolving meaning of the Civil ... the war must lead to “a new birth of freedom” or it would have been fought in vain. Major ...

“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.

It’s a comfort to remember that the virtues he embodied are fundamentally American.

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 ...

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

“Lincoln’s Peace” offers a pair of fascinating what ifs. Had the Union maintained a larger and stronger post-Civil War occupying ... after the fighting stops. Abraham Lincoln wanted to ...

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.