Abraham Lincoln

<p><span class="deck"> It’s a far cry from a log cabin</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">Abraham Lincoln signed it. A lot of scholars say he didn’t write it. Now, newly discovered evidence helps solve an enduring mystery.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Who was the Widow Bixby?</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Her son had her committed. She said it was so he could get his hands on her money. Now, 130 years after this bitter and controversial drama, a trove of letters—long believed destroyed—sheds new light on it.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Reading America’s Most Famous Speech</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">How Mount Vernon rebuilt the first president</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> George Nelson Clocks</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">Our most talented writer-president always wrote his own material and labored for hours over it.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The president takes charge and directs a successful amphibious landing at Hampton Roads.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Would the disastrous Reconstruction era have taken a different course?</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">As we approach the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth, leading historians look at the man and his achievements.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The former prairie-lawyer and then-president and the ex-slave and outspoken abolitionist formed an unusual friendship.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Lincoln’s oration at New York’s Cooper Union showed that the prairie lawyer could play in the big leagues</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A new picture of prairie lawyers coping with bad roads and worse inns on the Illinois frontier, drawn from David Davis’ letters</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A famous educator reviews 100 years of service by the land-grant colleges</span> </p>

<p><span class="body"><span class="body">Lincoln painstakingly evolved a plan for harmonious reconstruction of the Union, which Radical Republicans moved to sabotage</span></span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Theodore Roosevelt, his widow recalled, watched Lincoln’s funeral from his grandfather’s house</span> </span></p>

<p>Lincoln came out a victor in the 1860 presidential election despite winning only 2 percent of the Southern vote </p>

<p>A story that the Confederate president donned a petticoat to evade capture emerged right after Union cavalrymen apprehended him in Georgia at war’s end. Is it true?</p>

<p>An impetuous and sometimes corrupt Congress has often hamstrung the efforts of the president since the earliest days of the republic.</p>

<p>The Washington, DC cottage where the 16th president escaped to weigh such matters as the <em>Emancipation Proclamation</em> has been faithfully restored.</p>

<p>Only hours after being sworn in, Lincoln faced the most momentous decision in presidential history.</p>

<p>Even though he had no military training, Lincoln quickly rose to become one of America’s most talented commanders.</p>

<p>In one momentous decision, Robert E. Lee spared the United States years of divisive violence.</p>

<p>Lincoln’s bid for reelection in 1864 faced serious challenges from a popular opponent and a nation weary of war.</p>

<p>After Fort Sumter fell, a secessionist mob in Baltimore rioted and blocked the passage of Federal troops to Washington, D.C</p>

<p>The <em>Emancipation Proclamation</em> opened the door for Pennsylvania's African-American soldiers.</p>

<p>The first medical report on Lincoln's assassination has been uncovered.</p>

<p>John Nicolay and John Hay were Lincoln’s two closest aides in the White House, and they helped to craft the image of the president that we have today.</p>

<p>Working closely with President Lincoln, Secretary of War Stanton was tireless in his dedication to help win the Civil War. But his abruptness could sometimes be counterproductive.</p>

<p>Tears ran down the cheeks of Abraham Lincoln when he heard the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” sung in Congress in 1864 by a chaplain who had survived a Confederate prison. It would become the most famous literary production of the Civil War.</p>

<p>Lincoln's first Secretary of War amassed a fortune at the start of the Civil War, forcing a congressional investigation. </p>

<p>Histories written about the nation's greatest crisis focus on Lincoln and the military campaigns. But an intriguing group of characters in Congress also played a major role, advising and prodding the president.</p>

<p>Only hours after being sworn in, Lincoln faced the most momentous decision in presidential history.</p>

<p>Abraham Lincoln learned much of what made him a great president — honesty, sincerity, toughness, and humility — from his early reading and from studying the lives of Washington and Franklin.</p>

<p>“There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law,” said Abraham Lincoln.</p>

<p>The unique political genius of Abraham Lincoln was to navigate carefully and at times conservatively between abolition and the Southern cause until he knew the time was right for radical justice.</p>

<p>In his Second Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln embodied leading in a time of polarization, political disagreement, and differing understandings of reality.</p>

<p>Lincoln’s Secretary of the Treasury helped win the Civil War with his many financial innovations, and was an ardent advocate of emancipation.</p>

During the first three days of July, 1863, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania was the site of one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. President Lincoln delivered his famous speech at the dedication of the Gettysburg Civil War Cemetery on November 19, 1863.