SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The birthday of Abraham Lincoln, who served as the 16th President of the United States and was known as “The Great Emancipator,” is Sunday, Feb. 12. According to History.com, ...

The larger-than-life image Abraham Lincoln projects across the screen of American history owes much to his role as the Great Emancipator during the Civil War. Yet this noble aspect of Lincoln's ...

The question raised in last month's column about who should get credit for naming Abraham Lincoln the "Great Emancipator" wasn't meant to be a contest -- I don't know the answer -- but rather a ...

Radical Republicans found fault with Abraham Lincoln in life. His politics were often too moderate for the party’s firebrands. However, in death, says Christopher A. Thomas, they found a useful martyr ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) -- Opening the Abraham Lincoln library and museum, President Bush said Tuesday that its mix of showmanship and scholarship should help generations rediscover the 16th president ...

For almost a century, Lincoln Motor Company paid homage to our 16th president in name only – hoping the mere mention of the man who saved the Union and abolished slavery would somehow cast an aura of ...

NEW ORLEANS — The sun was just about to set over Lake Pontchartrain on a humid Louisiana day last May when Abraham Lincoln was summoned to action in a grassy field to wrestle to the ground the ...

Lincoln’s legal prudence in ending the peculiar institution. Allen C. Guelzo will have none of this. The Grace F. Kea Professor of American History at Eastern College and co-winner of the Lincoln ...

The award-winning Beninese artist unveils a work dedicated to the president’s “generosity of heart” The installation Create to Free Yourselves: Abraham Lincoln and the History of Freeing Slaves in ...

The question raised in last month's column about who should get credit for naming Abraham Lincoln the "Great Emancipator" wasn't meant to be a contest -- I don't know the answer -- but rather a ...