President Lincoln, regarded by historians as one of the best presidents in history, was born on this day in 1809. He is ...

For all his modesty and wartime preoccupation, the 16th president was one of the most photographed men of his time, with a ...

Birney The Liberty Party was the political outgrowth of the growing ... 1860: Republicans: Abraham Lincoln The Republican Party absorbed anti-slavery Whigs and most Know-Nothings.

How did Abraham Lincoln’s Republican Party become Donald Trump’s party? It’s a long time coming, former ODU vice president ...

Abraham Lincoln, celebrated on his 216th birthday, left a significant impact as the 16th President of the US. Not only known for his leadership during the Civil War and efforts to abolish slavery, ...

America has a rich history of third parties in politics. The Republican party started off as a third party and quickly became ...

Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.

This proved prophetic with the collapse of the national party systems ... achievements of Abraham Lincoln are mammoth, yet simple to describe: he confronted the secession of the South and the ...

Observer welcomes Louis Masur who writes and lectures about a range of topics including Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, the Founding Fathers, visual culture, and the history of Rock and Roll.

The Cass County Democrats will hold an alternative to the Cass County Republicans annual Abraham Lincoln Dinner this year in ...

Sixty-four years ago, the Estes Park Trail, predecessor to the Estes Park Trail-Gazette, ran columns highlighting the ...

Author and historian James Gindlesperger is scheduled to give a presentation Wednesday about President Abraham Lincoln at the Cambria County Library, 248 Main St., downtown Johnstown.