he switched parties becoming the first Republican president of the United States. In the election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln ran against John C. Breckinridge (Southern Democrat), John Bell ...

On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was ... September of 1862. He issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22. The proclamation warned the Confederate states to surrender ...

When most people think of Abraham ... where he paced the floors is surreal. I am a bit of a history nerd, but standing where someone famous once stood and lived gives me a thrill. Lincoln ...

Wood, from Adrian, has portrayed the nation’s 16th president in Washington, D.C., 35 states and two ... Wood said. “Lincoln lived in that home. Every day, he came home and that’s where ...

As early as 1849, Abraham Lincoln believed ... where we can set them free." Lincoln was fully aware of the irony, but he did not want to antagonize the slave states loyal to the Union by setting ...

NMAH/SI Upon hearing the name Abraham ... avid readers of Lincoln biographies (and Smithsonian) is that of inventor. Yet before he became the 16th president of the United States, Lincoln, who ...