Sixteenth president of the United States and president during the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) was immortalized by his Emancipation Proclamation, his Gettysburg Address, and two outstanding ...
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As a young man, Lincoln had taken flatboat trips down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. While traveling, he saw other boats become unavoidably grounded on sandbars that were created by the river's shif...
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A battered old hat, a pair of stained gloves, a child's silly rhyme _ hardly the stuff of history.Except that this hat is a stovepipe hat, the gloves are stained with a president's blood and the rh...
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