Abraham Lincoln

" Governor Jon S. Corzine today signed an Executive Order that establishes the New Jersey Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.  

Filed under: HumorYou think I'm kidding? I'm not kidding. From The Wall Street Journal:Ms. Artusa, a baseball-card collector since the 1970s, found something unusual in one pack -- a scratch-off code that pointed her to a Web site. The site told her she had won something too delicate to include...  

OMAHA, Neb. - Union Pacific will be the exclusive sponsor of the Abraham Lincoln bicentennial exhibition, which opens at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., February 12, 2009, in celebration of ...  

United States Mint Deputy Director Andrew Brunhart today unveiled designs for the 2009 Abraham Lincoln Commemorative Silver Dollar during the annual Dedication Day Ceremony at Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The unveiling took place on the 145th anniversary of the...  

Seven score and five years ago, President Abraham Lincoln delivered what would become one of the most famous speeches in world history.  

OMAHA, Neb., Nov 20, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Union Pacific will be the exclusive sponsor of the Abraham Lincoln bicentennial exhibition, which opens at the ...  

What will a new president from Illinois learn from the old one? Historian Matthew Dallek takes a look.  

“You fought in Spain.” When the underground leader, Victor Lazlo, spoke this immortal line to Rick Blaine in the 1942 film classic Casablanca, he was acknowledging that the cynical nightclub owner played by Humphrey Bogart had already stood up to the Nazis and could be counted on to stand up...  

OMAHA, Neb.----Union Pacific will be the exclusive sponsor of the Abraham Lincoln bicentennial exhibition, which opens at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., February 12, 2009, in celebration of Lincoln’s 200th birthday.  

GARY | In honor of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, Indiana University Northwest will welcome to campus nationally acclaimed Lincoln scholar and author Harold Holzer, Ph.D., who will deliver a presentation inspired by his latest book, “Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the...  

Published to coincide with the bicentennial of our 16th president's birth, this volume contains 68 essays by 55 writers who are among those best versed in the history of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. Writers include James M. McPherson, Shelby Foote and Doris Kearns Goodwin, as well as...  

Osborn Oldroyd sold this souvenir photo of his Lincoln museum, located on the first floor of the Lincoln Home, for twenty-five cents.  

A Texas museum hopes a document found in its archives turns out to be an authentic government copy of Abraham Lincoln's eloquent letter consoling a mother thought to have lost five sons in the Civil War.  

Stauffer demonstrates in amusing and enlightening fashion the pivotal role fisticuffs and fighting had in helping Lincoln and Douglass define themselves and take control of their fates.  

Skyler Hornback thought he missed out on meeting Laura Bush when a February ice storm spoiled the first lady's planned visit to Abraham Lincoln's birthplace. His disappointment melted away Tuesday when the 8-year-old introduced the first lady at a ceremony at the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace...