Major Acts In practical terms, the achievements of 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 ...

Abraham Lincoln said goodbye to his friend for the last time as they left the meeting that afternoon. It was Friday, April 14, 1865. America’s 16th president was 42 days into his second term and would ...

President Abraham Lincoln died in Washington, D.C., on this day in history, April 15, 1865, one day after he was shot by actor John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln, who was elected president in 1860 ...

President Donald Trump whined Sunday night that he's been harassed by a "hostile press" and claimed that he's been treated worse than President Abraham Lincoln, who was assassinated in 1865.

Abraham Lincoln wanted peace, for the war to end. He expressed his desire to "bind up the nation's wounds" in his second inaugural address on March 4, 1865. In a meeting at City Point, Virginia ...

It follows Secretary of War Edwin Stanton as he embarks on an intense search to find President Abraham Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth in April 1865. The series stars Tobias Menzies ...

Once war broke out, the pair became friends and remained so until Lincoln’s assassination in April 1865. He is the only president to hold a patent Abraham Lincoln is the only U.S. president to ...

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809–April 15, 1865) was the 16th president of the United States. He led the country through the Civil War and worked to end slavery. His life was cut short early ...

Betty Gilpin is currently playing the titular character in the hit musical, which follows Mary Todd Lincoln in the weeks leading up to Abraham Lincoln's 1865 assassination ...

National Museum of American History Abraham Lincoln's Watch, around 1858 National Museum of African American History and Culture Photograph of James Brown, Civil War veteran, with a picture of Abraham ...