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

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

Lincoln was a crony capitalist on economic policy, advocating protectionist tariffs, corporate welfare for railroad ...

That All Men Are Created Equal” features bills of sale, reward posters and more to explain slavery’s role in the Civil War, ...

National Park Service employees dust the statue of President Abraham Lincoln at ... the southern wall and his second inaugural address on the northern one. Lincoln gave that latter speech on ...

When Abraham Lincoln was preparing his speech for his second inaugural in 1865, historians think he cut the sentences and paragraphs from a printed draft and pasted them onto the copy he planned ...

The then President-Elect addressed 1,000 people as his train stopped while heading to Washington, D.C., for his inauguration.

Abraham Lincoln's wife was long attacked for everything from her spending to her lack of emotional restraint. But with two ...

8. At Abraham Lincoln's second inauguration in 1865, Black men and women marched in the inaugural parade for the first time. 9. Barack Obama's 2008 inauguration was the largest attendance of any ...

including one used by former President Abraham Lincoln. This striking gesture echoes a precedent set by Obama, who also used two Bibles - including Lincoln's - for his second inauguration in 2013.