"This Voyager spacecraft was constructed by the United States of America. We are a community of 240 million human beings ...
Photos courtesy of David Wiegers, Gurnee, Illinois. Wiegers has visited and photographed over 200 statues of Abraham Lincoln and has plans to publish his photographs in a book tentatively entitled ...
Images of Abraham Lincoln as he lay dying filled the popular press in the days following the assassination. The sudden and violent attack on the president came on Good Friday, the most somber day ...
The only photograph of Abraham Lincoln in death almost never survived. When the assassinated president was laid out in his coffin in the rotunda of New York's City Hall for a viewing attended by ...
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 ...
In addition to being president, Abraham Lincoln was the post-master of New Salem; he also offered services as a wood chopper, county deputy surveyor, and lawyer. Abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN was born in Hardin Countv, Kentucky, Feb. 12, 1809. He moved to Indiana in 1816; came to Illinois in March, 1830: to old Sangamon County in 1831, settling in New-Salem: and from ...