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  1. Abraham Lincoln: Facts, Birthday & Assassination

    Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, to Nancy and Thomas Lincoln in a one-room log cabin in Hardin County, Kentucky. His family moved to southern Indiana in 1816. Lincoln's ...

  2. Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, near Hodgenville, Kentucky, U.S.—died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the 16th president of the United States (1861-65), who preserved the Union during the American Civil War and brought about the emancipation of enslaved people in the United States. Lincoln and his cabinet.

  3. Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln (/ ˈ l ɪ ŋ k ən / LING-kən; February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the United States through the American Civil War, defending the nation as a constitutional union, defeating the insurgent Confederacy, playing a major ...

  4. Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln spent only four of his 56 years as president of the United States. Yet, given the importance of the events that marked his 1861-65 term of office, the nation's admiration for him as a man of courage and principle, and the abundance of photographic images that recorded his presidency, it is hard for most people to think of him as anything else.

  5. Abraham Lincoln: Biography, U.S. President, Abolitionist

    Abraham Lincoln was the 16 th president of the United States, serving from 1861 to 1865, and is regarded as one of America's greatest heroes due to his roles in guiding the Union through the ...

  6. Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865

    Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865. Abraham Lincoln. Sixteenth President, 1861-1865. Campaign. By the spring of 1860, Lincoln was running against a deeply divided Democratic Party, positioning the nation on the brink of fundamental change. A Republican win would end the South's political dominance of the Union. Ultimately, Lincoln carried all ...

  7. Articles and Essays

    Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln On the evening of April 14, 1865, while attending a special performance of the comedy, "Our American Cousin," President Abraham Lincoln was shot. Accompanying him at Ford's Theatre that night were his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, a twenty-eight year-old officer named Major Henry R. Rathbone, and Rathbone's fiancée, Clara Harris.

  8. Abraham Lincoln: Impact and Legacy

    Abraham Lincoln: Impact and Legacy. By Michael Burlingame. In 1982, forty-nine historians and political scientists were asked by the Chicago Tribune to rate all the Presidents through Jimmy Carter in five categories: leadership qualities, accomplishments/crisis management, political skills, appointments, and character/integrity.

  9. About this Collection

    The papers of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), lawyer, representative from Illinois, and sixteenth president of the United States, contain approximately 40,550 documents dating from 1774 to 1948, although most of the collection spans from the 1850s through Lincoln's presidency (1861-1865). Roughly half of the collection, more than 20,000 documents, comprising 62,000 images, as well as ...

  10. Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln

    On the evening of April 14, 1865, while attending a special performance of the comedy, "Our American Cousin," President Abraham Lincoln was shot. Accompanying him at Ford's Theatre that night were his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, a twenty-eight year-old officer named Major Henry R. Rathbone, and Rathbone's fiancée, Clara Harris. After the play was in progress, a figure with a drawn derringer ...

  11. Knowing the Presidents: Abraham Lincoln

    Knowing the Presidents: Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865. Sixteenth President, 1861-1865. Personal Information. In addition to being president, Abraham Lincoln was the post-master of New Salem; he also offered services as a wood chopper, county deputy surveyor, and lawyer. Abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room log cabin in ...

  12. Abraham Lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin in Kentucky on February 12, 1809, to parents who could neither read nor write. He went to school on and off for a total of about a year, but he educated himself by reading borrowed books. When Lincoln was nine years old, his mother died.

  13. The Papers of Abraham Lincoln

    The Papers of Abraham Lincoln Division of Research Programs. Photo caption. Portrait of Abraham Lincoln taken on November 8, 1863, eleven days before his famed Gettysburg Address. ... Trace Lincoln's development from a country lawyer to the president who would lead the country through the Civil War through his legal briefs, personal letters ...

  14. 47 Interesting Facts About Abraham Lincoln

    25. Abraham Lincoln was against slavery and was the first politician to believe in the rights of the women to vote. 26. Lincoln had lots of cats in the White House. In fact, he had two cats that he fed on the dinner table. However, his wife did not like the act. 27. Lincoln is known for failures.

  15. Abraham Lincoln

    A timeline of events in the life of Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. president and one of the country's greatest leaders. During the American Civil War Lincoln worked to preserve the Union. He became known as the Great Emancipator after his Emancipation Proclamation (1863) declared slaves in the Confederate states were free.

  16. The Lincoln Assassination: Crime and Punishment, Myth and Memory

    The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln remains one of the most prominent events in U.S. history. It continues to attract enormous and intense interest from scholars, writers, and armchair historians alike, ranging from painstaking new research to wild-eyed speculation. At the end of the Lincoln bicentennial year, and the onset of the Civil War sesquicentennial, the leading scholars of ...

  17. Abraham Lincoln: Leadership in Wartime

    In his study of Abraham Lincoln's wartime leadership, Tried by War (2008), historian James McPherson notes that the amount of attention devoted to Lincoln's role as commander-in-chief in the scholarly literature is disproportionately small considering the actual percentage of time he spent on that task, notwithstanding that he is "the only president whose entire administration was ...

  18. 10 Facts: Abraham Lincoln

    Share to Google Classroom Added by 21 Educators. Abraham Lincoln was the President of the United States during the Civil War and one of the great figures in American history.Expand your knowledge and appreciation of Lincoln's legacy with these amazing facts. Fact #1: The young Abraham Lincoln described himself as "a piece of floating driftwood."

  19. 10 Things You May Not Know About the Lincoln Assassination

    The Lincoln Assassination Plot. 6. Mary Todd Lincoln thought the vice president was involved in the conspiracy. Hours before shooting Lincoln, Booth had mysteriously called on Johnson at the ...

  20. Abraham Lincoln and Emancipation

    The Emancipation Proclamation and Thirteenth Amendment brought about by the Civil War were important milestones in the long process of ending legal slavery in the United States. This essay describes the development of those documents through various drafts by Lincoln and others and shows both the evolution of Abraham Lincoln's thinking and his efforts to operate within the constitutional ...

  21. What Events Led to Lincoln's Assassination?

    Abraham Lincoln's assassination was yet another wound that our country suffered due to the "peculiar institution" of slavery. In studying the Civil War, students will discover that slavery was at the core of the conflict that tore our nation apart and that ultimately killed the sixteenth president. ... Students will enhance their research and ...

  22. Abraham Lincoln (1861 to 1865): The Great Uniter

    Of course, Abraham Lincoln is best remembered for preserving the Union during its darkest hours and issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves in the Confederate states. However, his notable career as an Illinois lawyer, representing and defending railroads, had a profound influence on transportation policy and significantly shaped the nation's infrastructure development.

  23. Exploring Abraham Lincoln's Ethnic Background

    Abraham Lincoln is widely regarded ⁤as‌ one of the most⁤ influential figures⁣ in American history. As the 16th President of the United States, he led the country through the ⁣tumultuous⁢ period of the Civil War and played a⁢ pivotal‍ role⁢ in the abolition of‍ slavery. ... Recommendations for Further⁤ Research on Abraham ...

  24. The Odd Items Found in Abraham Lincoln's Pockets On the Night of His

    On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth assassinated US President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, an event that would forever etch the 16th president in history. This dreadful act happened mere ...

  25. The debate that made Abraham Lincoln a national figure

    Abraham Lincoln's arguments against slavery in his first debate with Stephen Douglas in Ottawa, Illinois, would make him a national figure.

  26. 5 Ugly Facts About Abraham Lincoln No One Likes to Talk About

    In 1861, Abraham Lincoln invited a group of African-American leaders to the White House, according to Columbia University historian Eric Foner.

  27. Timeline

    A chronology of key events in the life of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), lawyer, representative from Illinois, and sixteenth president of the United States. For a more detailed chronology, consult The Lincoln Log External or the three-volume Lincoln Day by Day: A Chronology, 1809-1865, edited by Earl Schenck Miers (Washington, D.C., 1960) and available online through HathiTrust External.

  28. Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies Streaming: Watch & Stream Online via Peacock

    Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies is available to stream on Peacock. On Peacock, you can enjoy globally beloved television icons like Modern Family, Parks and Recreation, The Office, Downton Abbey, and ...

  29. Section 6.311

    Section 6.311 - Establishment and purpose (a) The Pennsylvania Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission (Commission) is established to organize, arrange and coordinate bicentennial tributes to Abraham Lincoln in this Commonwealth and to coordinate those activities with the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission (National Commission) of the Federal government as well as other interested parties.

  30. Lincoln Financial Life Insurance Review 2024: Pros & Cons

    Lincoln WealthPreserve 2 IUL - Tracks the S&P 500 with a cash value component. It also includes a death benefit lasting up to 40 years or age 90, whichever comes first.