When Lincoln left Illinois and headed east for his inauguration, he told the crowd at the Springfield railroad station that he confronted challenges equal only to those that had faced the nation’s ...

Lincoln's surprising election in 1860 helped spark the war itself. His Gettysburg Address (1863) and Second Inaugural Address (1865) are two of his most revered speeches. Lincoln's story is ...

He came to New York in 1860 and was living ... President Abraham Lincoln after the war was over. According to Eyewitness to History.com on the night of April 14, 1865, Booth shot the president ...

Though Lincoln was involved with the Whig Party (which was formed to oppose Andrew Jackson and his use of presidential power) earlier on his career, he switched parties becoming the first Republican ...

By 1860, he was in demand throughout ... Booth abandoned his plot to kidnap Lincoln. His new goal was assassination. On the morning of April 14, 1865, Booth learned that the president would ...

Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia that day to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at a home in ...

Tuesday marked the 160th anniversary of a somber day, as the funeral train taking fallen President Abraham Lincoln from ...