How’s that for a campaign slogan? “Vote for me…I’m the best second ... Going into that convention, Abraham Lincoln was considered the fourth-most-likely winner. New York Gov. William Seward was seen ...
The first was John Breckinridge, who was defeated by Abraham Lincoln and presided over the certification of his 1860 election victory. While Hubert Humphrey’s ratification of Richard Nixon’s ...
There are 75,000 U.S. streets named for Lincoln, but the first known was in Bloomington, which honored the beloved local ...
On this day in history, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. On Jan. 1, 1863, Lincoln declared ...
Author Erik Larson, one of the most popular authors of non-fiction history, joins us to discuss his new book The Demon of ...
There's been another exit from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield. Christian McWhirter, the ...
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