Last Monday was the most unlucky day in the life of ABRAHAM LINCOLN, thus far ... It was generally believed that his Inaugural Address would be honorably distinguished from those of his ...

When Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office for his second term as president, the United States was divided as never before ...

Abraham Lincoln was met with a crowd of thousands when his whistle-stop tour arrived in Columbus, Ohio in 1861. It was during ...

he'll also be repeating it -- by placing his hand on the same Bible that Abraham Lincoln used during the inauguration of 1861. The Constitution does not require presidents to be sworn in on a ...

In his first inaugural address, Lincoln delivered a final plea to the South to remain, but to no avail. War broke out in April 1861 with the attempt by the Federal government to resupply South ...

The soon-to-be president used a call-to-action uttered by Lincoln in his inaugural address in 1861, an appeal to Americans' "better angels." Obama, who will take up what he called the country's ...

More on the unsuccessful plot to kill Lincoln: http://j.mp/VnSZ9g During his inauguration tour in 1861, the president's life was threatened in the city of Baltimore ...

LAKE CITY — A bronze tablet mounted on red granite will commemorate Abraham Lincoln's 1861 visit to Lake City. The tablet will tell the story of Lincoln's stop at the town's rail depot enroute ...

This striking gesture echos a precedent set by Obama, who also used two Bibles for his second inauguration ... is the iconic Lincoln Bible, a velvet-bound artifact first used in 1861 to inaugurate ...

Before his inauguration, seven states had seceded ... electing Jefferson Davis as its president. On April 12, 1861, barely a month after Lincoln took office, Confederate forces fired on Union ...