Debates over Abraham Lincoln's private life have lingered for ... him how the “roof didn’t fall in” following his own wedding night. Their letters continued through the 1850s and ‘60s ...

In the meantime Ann and Abraham Lincoln became engaged, thinking my father dead. My father, however, returned before the wedding came off." For a time Rutledge and McNamar exchanged letters ...

Lincoln had struggled to heal the wounds of war, yet he became one of its last victims, and the war left the country no less divided. Abraham Lincoln grew up on the American frontier. Born in a ...

Major Acts In practical terms, the achievements of Abraham Lincoln are mammoth, yet simple to describe: he confronted the secession of the South and the dissolution of the Union with all the political ...