President Lincoln, regarded by historians as one of the best presidents in history, was born on this day in 1809. He is ...

President Donald Trump puts himself in a class above the two greatest presidents in U.S. history. During his Super Bowl ...

However, other junior enlisted men previously served as Vice President and even President. In 1861, Hannibal Hamlin vacated his seat in the Senate to become Abraham Lincoln’s Vice President. The ...

Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.

It’s a slip, not a fall,” Abraham Lincoln said after his loss in his legendary 1858 Illinois Senate contest against Stephen Douglas. Liz Cheney apparently has the same attitude after her ...

(THE CONVERSATION) The best presidents – including figures such as Abraham Lincoln and George Washington – are celebrated not only as good leaders, but as good men. They embody not simply political ...

Lincoln’s time as a young man on the make had made him think hard about the relationship between Americans and their government. In his era, elite southern enslavers insisted that government had no ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The birthday of Abraham Lincoln, who served as the 16th President of the United States and was known as “The Great Emancipator,” is Sunday, Feb. 12. According to History ...