Lancaster was a prosperous little city with a population of about 6,000 when Buchanan, at age 18, arrived there in 1809. Handsome ... out of the Union if Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate ...

Abraham Lincoln, the greatest American president, was also in my view the best of all presidential speechwriters. As a youngster in Lincoln, Nebraska, I stood before the statue of the president ...

Abraham Lincoln was our tallest president. At 6-foot-4, he would stand out even today, and he certainly towered over the men and women of his era. The top hat he habitually wore in public made him ...

On May 30, Abraham Lincoln signed a law awarding prize ... he would take the opposite position in a very public way. On April 11, 1865, Lincoln delivered a speech from the White House balcony ...