Abraham Lincoln Archives

Walking a tightrope on his first visit to Washington and the Army of the Potomac, the steadfast, unpretentious Grant quickly proved Lincoln had found the right man for the task ahead.

People Archives:Abraham Lincoln

Grant Didn’t Fit the Eastern Theater Mold—Turns Out That’s Exactly What Lincoln Wanted

Abraham Lincoln’s Embrace of Foreign-Born Fighters

America, It Seems More and More, Could Use a Politician Like Henry Clay Again

A Pacifist Scribbled A Song When She Was Half-Asleep. It Became A Famous Union Battle March

“Fighting Joe” Hooker Literally Cleaned Up the Army of the Potomac During the Civil War

Tickets Auctioned From the Night of Lincoln’s Murder at Ford’s Theatre

Emancipation Proclamation, One of America’s Most Important Documents, On Display

Why Did Lincoln’s Right-Hand Men Call Him the ‘Tycoon’?

With This Union Soldier’s Death the NYT Claimed That ‘some most interesting chapters of the unwritten and secret history of the War’ Had Died With Him

Lincoln in His Own Words: The 16th President’s Musings About ‘negro equality’