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.

Lincoln’s time as a young man on the make had made him think hard about the relationship between Americans and their ...

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 ...

As early as 1849, Abraham Lincoln ... all slaves in the United States. Rather, it declared free only those slaves living in states not under Union control. William Seward, Lincoln's secretary ...

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 ...

This, no doubt, is true of any really great statesman, but it was remarkably so of Abraham Lincoln ... and defend the constitution of the United States. I could not take the office without ...