he switched parties becoming the first Republican president of the United States. In the election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln ran against John C. Breckinridge (Southern Democrat), John Bell ...

Florida Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna has introduced legislation that would direct the Department of Interior to put Donald Trump's face on Mount Rushmore. In announcing this new legislation, Luna ...

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

When Lincoln ... Abraham Lincoln are mammoth, yet simple to describe: he confronted the secession of the South and the dissolution of the Union with all the political and practical tools at his ...

As early as 1849, Abraham Lincoln ... all slaves in the United States. Rather, it declared free only those slaves living in states not under Union control. William Seward, Lincoln's secretary ...