With the benefit of hindsight we know this but contemporaries were not so privileged. Northerners were war weary because there was little to show for lengthening casualty lists and no end to the ...

Although Abraham Lincoln did follow some of Frederick Douglass' ideals, such as allowing Black men to join the army, they did not completely see eye-to-eye. Notably, during the Election of 1864 ...

Lincoln’s election was itself evidence of the sectional discord that ... Major Acts In practical terms, the achievements of Abraham Lincoln are mammoth, yet simple to describe: he confronted the ...

8 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1864, amid the U.S. Civil War, Abraham Lincoln was elected to his ... Kennedy won the U.S. presidential election, defeating Richard Nixon.

Abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room log cabin in Hardin County ... In 1860, Lincoln was the first ever president to be elected with less than 50% of the vote. In the election of 1864, he ran ...

There are a lot of fun facts about Abraham Lincoln ... One day in 1864, Lincoln saw Jack lining up with some soldiers who were preparing to vote in the election. When he asked Tad if Jack planned ...

“Abraham Lincoln: His Life in Print” is on view through December 28—running more than a month before and after the ...