He led his nation through the most difficult times it had known, restoring a shattered Union and ending slavery in America. Lincoln had struggled to heal the wounds of war, yet he became one of ...

Explain that this phrase is from a speech that Abraham Lincoln made at Cooper Union in New York, before he began running for president. Since TV, radios and computers did not exist in Lincoln’s ...

Before he became the 16th president, Abraham Lincoln was a bartender and bar owner. He partnered with a friend to buy a bar in Illinois but gave it up to become a lawyer shortly thereafter.