Little Lincoln Winship received this Abraham Lincoln postcard from his parents on his third birthday in 1912.

Chuck Schultz, the former mayor of Quincy, Illinois, talks about the importance of the Lincoln-Douglas debates in shaping Abraham Lincoln's career - and American history. IE 11 is not supported.

Abraham Lincoln issued the "preliminary" Emancipation Proclamation on this day in history, Sept. 22, 1862, announcing the slaves would be freed on Jan. 1, 1863.

Late on April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth shot Abraham Lincoln as the president took in a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Early the next morning, Lincoln, who had steered the nation ...

Abraham Lincoln is at the center - literally - of life in Hodgenville, Ky. CBS News Besides, they still have the story of the other cabin, the one back at Knob Creek.

Peter gets a hair cut from Jim Morris in Columbus, Ohio. (Peter O'Dowd) Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd is retracing part of the route that Abraham Lincoln's funeral train took 150 years ago. The train ...

However, Lincoln did speak to the spirit of the quote well before he ran for president in 1860, and well before he served his one term in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1847-49.