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Vor 2 Tagen · Abraham Lincoln led his country through a tumultuous period and played an instrumental role in abolishing slavery while preserving the Union as the 16th president of the United States.
Vor 2 Tagen · Abraham Lincoln ( / ˈlɪŋkən / LING-kən; February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.
Vor 5 Tagen · As for his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, she married him out of spite, then devoted herself to making him miserable. So Herndon would have it, and after him countless biographers, novelists, and playwrights elaborated upon his views, which persist as accepted knowledge about Lincoln despite their refutation by historical scholarship.
Vor 3 Tagen · Mary Todd Lincoln loved to splurge on her wardrobe and she made that clear when she attended Abraham Lincoln's inauguration ball in 1861. Much to her husband's distaste, she spared no expense on ...
Vor 4 Tagen · Because Miner's account of Lincoln’s final words stemmed from something that Mary allegedly told him, some prominent Lincoln historians have deemed his writings accurate and truthful.
Vor 2 Tagen · Based primarily on Carl Sandburg’s 1926 biography of Lincoln, Sherwood’s sprawling drama covers a little more than 30 years in Lincoln’s life, from a cabin in New Salem, Ill., in the 1830s to a train yard in Springfield on Feb. 1, 1861, as Lincoln and his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, board a train for Washington. D.C. in advance of his inauguration as the nation’s 16th president.
Vor 5 Tagen · Learn about Abraham Lincoln's campaign for the U.S. presidential election of 1860. See all videos for this article. For about five years Lincoln took little part in politics, and then a new sectional crisis gave him a chance to reemerge and rise to statesmanship. In 1854 his political rival Stephen A. Douglas maneuvered through Congress a bill ...
