41-calibre bullet with which John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln on the night of April ... the main field army of the Southern Confederacy had surrendered at Appomattox Court ...

In September 1862, weeks before he issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, Abraham ... Lincoln was the first president to understand and channel the spiritual and institutional power ...

In the election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln ran against John C. Breckinridge (Southern Democrat), John Bell (Constitutional ... of the President allowing for the chief executive to hold full power over ...

Presidents Day offers a valuable opportunity to revisit Abraham ... executive in power, it might feel good in the moment, but it’s a moment that is likely fleeting. Because as Lincoln made ...

Bannon suggested Ken Burns’ classic documentary on the Civil War, thinking it would be instructive to see how an earlier president, Abraham Lincoln ... Seven southern states seceded from ...

On the clear, crisp morning of Feb. 23, 1861, a crowd of nearly 15,000 gathered in Baltimore to greet Abraham ... for Lincoln, or that Baltimore’s own police chief had clear Southern leanings?

That’s what Abraham Lincoln said eight score years ago about ... save for its constitutionally mandated power to set standards for naturalization. Rules and fees for incoming foreign passengers ...