Despite being little more than the answer to trivia questions today, Vaughn Meader was a pioneer who paved the way for ...

Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln remains a tragic historical ... Confederate States of America, electing Jefferson Davis as its president. On April 12, 1861 ...

Abraham Lincoln is widely considered one of the ... Lincoln trampling the constitution and armed with two swords; Jefferson Davis or Uncle Sam lies beaten in the background Excerpt from book ...

On April 14, 1865, itinerant actor John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford ... where he hopes to meet Confederate president Jefferson Davis and receive a hero’s ...

“A house divided against itself, cannot stand.’ I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.” 37 —Abraham Lincoln The Civil War was about slavery, although ...

Trump will stand at the podium in a time of deep division and great challenge, somewhat akin to the circumstances that confronted Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln when they assumed the reins ...

Washington finished behind only Abraham Lincoln in the inaugural ... behind only Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson and Lincoln. In Siena's 2018 poll of historians, the nation's first ...