In the election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln ran against John C. Breckinridge (Southern Democrat), John Bell (Constitutional Union), and Stephen A. Douglas (Northern Democrat). At this time, there were ...

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In a quarter-century legal career, Abraham Lincoln accepted all types of casework, ranging from real estate to murder — and ...

Abraham Lincoln’s Birthplace ... At the Illinois Republican State convention in 1860, Lincoln’s cousin John Hanks presented two rails marked by a plaque reading “Two rails from a lot ...

President Abraham Lincoln died in Washington, D.C., on this day in history, April 15, 1865, one day after he was shot by actor John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln, who was elected president in 1860 ...

Thus begins Edgar DeWitt Jones’ book "Lincoln and the Preachers" (1948). During the period of 1849 to 1860 Abraham Lincoln spent more time in Bloomington than any other place, except his home in ...

When President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, he called it “the central act of my administration, and the great event of the 19th century.” Yet critics ...

America’s 16th president, Abraham Lincoln ... gained national recognition for his unified political stance. In 1860, Lincoln launched his presidential campaign, which favored abolition but ...

Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln never spoke to one another in ... written sometime during the fall and winter of 1860-61, their imagined conversation begins. The print-obsessed Whitman loved ...

Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln remains ... elegant phrases of modern rhetoric, Lincoln's surprising election in 1860 helped spark the war itself.