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Hace 1 día · Abraham Lincoln (/ ˈ l ɪ ŋ k ən / 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.
Hace 1 día · Letter describing Abraham Lincoln’s second Inaugural Address, the celebrations, and his impressions of Washington, DC, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, and Harrisburg. The letter is accompanied by an envelope addressed to Mr. Claude Hamilton from the Lincoln National Life Insurance Co. with images of Lincoln and his birthplace.
Hace 2 días · 16th President of the United States. March 4, 1861–April 15, 1865. Faced with the greatest crisis in the history of the nation, Abraham Lincoln invoked the New Testament when he declared, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” He committed his presidency to preserving the Union.
Hace 2 días · He takes as sincere Lincoln’s declaration of lifelong opposition to slavery as fundamentally unjust and un-republican, and highlights the continuity in his belief that the federal government was perfectly able – though was not necessarily obliged, as the ‘freedom national’ doctrine would have had it – to extirpate slavery where it fell under its...
Hace 5 días · Abraham Lincoln, by name Honest Abe, the Rail-Splitter, or the Great Emancipator, (born February 12, 1809, near Hodgenville, Kentucky, U.S.—died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.), 16th president of the United States (1861–65), who preserved the Union during the American Civil War and brought about the emancipation of the slaves.
Hace 1 día · The Emancipation Proclamation, officially Proclamation 95, was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War.
Hace 2 días · On December 8, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation known as the “Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction.” In it, Lincoln introduced his first plan for Reconstruction — reintegrating the southern states back into the Union and reconstructing society to protect the rights of former slaves.
