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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

On a February afternoon in 1864, Abraham Lincoln stood outside the White House, waiting impatiently for the presidential carriage he had summoned for a trip down Pennsylvania Avenue to Mathew ...

He was outspoken in his hatred of Abraham Lincoln, whose actions he saw as unconstitutional. By the fall of 1864, Booth had begun ... tool of the North" and his election a plot to "make himself ...

Abraham Lincoln ... While campaigning for re-election during his first term, Trump famously said he'd done the most for Black Americans of any president since Lincoln – a comment disputed ...