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

In 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the first Republican to win a presidential election in the United States, winning 39.8 percent of the popular vote and defeating the nearest of his three ...

His was, no doubt, the most accomplished presidency in the 64 years between George Washington’s and Abraham Lincoln’s. And where Washington and Lincoln had arrived at moments freighted with destiny ...

In his post-inauguration column in The Virginia Gazette on Jan. 29, Joseph Filko did a great job of laying out his hopes and ...

Steve Inskeep of NPR's Morning Edition on Lincoln's skill at crossing political lines. In a period of deep and fundamental division, Abraham Lincoln sought to unite the nation in the face of ...

The general’s campaign through the South is known for its brutality against civilians. For the enslaved who followed his army ...

Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...

1860, despite his controversial opposition to slavery. A few hours after Lincoln’s election, perhaps a dramatic foreshadowing of things to come occurred back home in Illinois. One of the boilers ...

While crime was a central focus of the election, with President-elect ... than any other U.S. city, going back to Abraham Lincoln in 1860. The notorious and consequential 1968 Democratic ...

After Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in April 1865 ... According to census records, the number of slaves in America went from 894,452 in 1800 to 3,953,587 in 1860. During that same period, the per ...

Namely, amid all the caterwauling and bitching about the fact that Elon Musk and his team of young savants at DOGE who are ...