On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States -- an event that outraged ... and in May 1863 the War Department established the Bureau of Colored Troops.

he switched parties becoming the first Republican president of the United States. In the election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln ran against John C. Breckinridge (Southern Democrat), John Bell ...

When Lincoln ... 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 and practical tools at his ...

Abraham Lincoln won election to the U.S. Congress in 1846. As a Congressman, he criticized the United States' participation in the Mexican War. Still, he worked to help Zachary Taylor, a hero of ...

Abraham Lincoln, Mohandas Gandhi, and Marquis de Lafayette. Come see what the United States Department of the Interior has designated a National Historic Landmark and absorb the energy of past and ...