Lincoln’s distinctively humane personality and incredible impact on the nation have endowed him with an enduring legacy. Quick Facts FULL NAME: Abraham LincolnBORN: February 12, 1809DIED: April 15, 1865BIRTHPLACE: Hodgenville, KentuckySPOUSE: Mary Todd Lincoln (m. 1842)CHILDREN: Robert Todd ...
Follow Abraham Lincoln from a frontier cabin to the White House where he guided America through the Civil War An overview of the life of Abraham Lincoln. Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Learn how Abraham Lincoln's frontier childhood and early appetite for reading shaped his character ...
Abraham Lincoln was born in Hardin County, Kentucky, on February 12, 1809. He moved to Indiana in 1816 and lived there for the rest of his youth. His mother died when he was 9 but he was very close to his stepmother, who urged him to read. Lincoln himself stated that he had about...
Lincoln won re-election in 1864, as Union military triumphs heralded an end to the war. In his planning for peace, the President was flexible and generous, encouraging Southerners to lay down their arms and join speedily in reunion. The spirit that guided him was clearly that of hisSecond ...
and had been in no part based on assumed historical facts which are not really true; or, if wanting in some of these, it had been before the court more than once, and had there been affirmed and reaffirmed through a course of years, it then might be, perhaps would be, factious, nay...
Well, they put some thought into the question just before the vice presidential debate. The Biden campaign apparently got an intern to Google up some facts to justify court-packing. They came up with Abraham Lincoln probably a few minutes before Kamala Harris took the stage. Here's what she...
Lincoln’s distinctively humane personality and incredible impact on the nation have endowed him with an enduring legacy. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below Quick Facts FULL NAME: Abraham LincolnBORN: February 12, 1809DIED: April 15, 1865BIRTHPLACE: Hodgenville, KentuckySPOUSE: Mary Todd Lincoln ...