Nov. 8 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1864, amid the U.S. Civil War, Abraham Lincoln was elected to his second term as president. He was assassinated five months later. In 1889, Montana was ...

President Abraham Lincoln died in Washington, D.C., on this day in history, April 15, 1865, one day after he was shot by actor John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln, who was elected president in 1860 ...

he told the crowd at the Springfield railroad station that he confronted challenges equal only to those that had faced the nation’s first president: Washington had had to create a nation; Lincoln now ...

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 ...

Abraham Lincoln won election to the U.S. Congress in 1846 ... In Ulysses S. Grant, the president found his man. Lincoln named Grant commander of all federal armies in March 1864.

The only photograph of Abraham Lincoln in death almost never survived. When the assassinated president was laid out in his coffin in the rotunda of New York's City Hall for a viewing attended by ...

In the spirit of working together to build something bigger than ourselves — a more perfect and bipartisan union — the ...

Donald Trump was sworn in Monday as the 47th president of the United States in one of the most remarkable political comebacks ...

Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln remains a ... elegant phrases of modern rhetoric, Lincoln's surprising election in 1860 helped spark the war itself.