In 1858, after winning the Republican nomination for the Senate against incumbent Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln gave a speech that has stood the test of time because of the truth it laid plain ...

In remarks at Independence Hall in 1861, President Abraham Lincoln shared the roots of his political philosophy while ...

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The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum has obtained an original 1858 photograph of the future president with an interesting — if somewhat macabre — backstory.

This photo provided by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum shows an ambrotype image of President Abraham Lincoln circa 1858. During his U.S. Senate campaign against Stephen A ...

The tale provides an unlikely, ghastly background to the original 1858 ambrotype created during the future nation-saving Civil War president's ascendancy, an image which the Abraham Lincoln ...

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum has obtained an original 1858 photograph of the future president with an interesting backstory.