Abraham Lincoln, the greatest American president, was also in my view the best of all presidential speechwriters. As a youngster in Lincoln, Nebraska, I stood before the statue of the president ...

is a hero—one of the few History will delight to honor. He has done something for his race and for the world of mankind.” On May 30, Abraham Lincoln signed a law awarding prize money to Smalls ...

“Equal rights & Justice to all white men in the United States forever,” urges John McMahon of Hambrook, Pennsylvania, on Aug. 5, 1864. “White men is in class number one & black men in class number two ...

The following interesting incident was stated in a recent address before the Historical Society of this city, by Han. ISAAC N. ARNOLD; "In 1832 JOHN DIXON kept the ferry across Rock River ...

It seems like a new biography of President Abraham Lincoln comes out every few years, trying to discern new perspectives of ...

An auction of materials relating to U.S. president Abraham Lincoln, upcoming at Freeman's | Hindman, may bring as much as $4 ...