Historians consistently rank Abraham Lincoln as the greatest U.S. president. Without his leadership and political brilliance, ...

In a quarter-century legal career, Abraham Lincoln accepted all types of casework, ranging from real estate to murder — and ...

In 1859 young engineer Grenville Dodge met Abraham Lincoln by chance in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Dodge assured the future president that the Platte Valley would one day be the route of the Pacific ...

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 ...

Even Abraham Lincoln was called to duel ... By the time of the Broderick-Terry duel of 1859, slavery had become the new reason for dueling. Dueling had lost favor in the early 1800s in the ...