President Lincoln signed that preliminary order five days after Antietam -- on September 22.
When times were darkest, President Lincoln understood that our American blessings shined brighter than ever.
In late 2006, President Bush, like President Lincoln in 1862, adopted a new approach to the war.
Today, Dr. King, President Lincoln, and other shapers of our American story proudly watch over our National Mall.
President Lincoln had a German professor, Francis Lieber, draft General Orders No. 100 which embodied international customary law.
In 1861, President Lincoln prohibited the states of the Union from trading with the seceding states of the Confederacy.
After the slaying of President Lincoln, Mary Surratt (Robin Wright) is arrested and charged for her alleged part in the conspiracy.
Under Clinton's proclamation, Anderson Cottage and the surrounding 2.1 acres will be designated as the President Lincoln and Soldiers' Home National Monument.
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President Lincoln and his cabinet took a personal interest in this, and occasionally donated autographs to be sold at these Sanitary Fairs.
Like Washington, President Lincoln's biggest financial challenge was paying for a war.
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But in reality, there is no indication that President Lincoln actually considered quick passage of the abolition amendment to be so crucial.
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The liar law can be traced to 1863, when President Lincoln needed a way to fight scam artists ripping off the Union Army.
So even as President Lincoln tried to hold the North and South together, he was determined to see this railroad unite East and West.
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In 2010, a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Lincoln was hung in the Oval Office above a bust of Martin Luther King, Jr.
"President Lincoln once instructed us to be sure to put your feet in the right place and then stand firm, " said Biden, a native of Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Emancipation Day marks the anniversary of the signing of the Compensated Emancipation Act by President Lincoln in 1862, which freed the slaves in the District of Columbia.
In the style of a political thriller, it depicts President Lincoln's efforts to get a ban on slavery passed in Washington, using a combination of persuasion, inspiration, horse-trading and arm-twisting.
But dubious about President Lincoln's intentions fighting to save the Union was not the same as fighting to abolish slavery he had not yet put on a blue uniform.
Based on Fox News host Bill O'Reilly's bestselling book, Killing Lincoln chronicles the final days of President Lincoln (Billy Campbell) and the plot by his assassin John Wilkes Booth (Jesse Johnson).
Spielberg deliberately establishes a connection between President Lincoln, a tall, gifted orator who passed abolition against a divided Congress, and President Barack Obama, a tall, gifted orator who passed universal health care against a divided Congress.
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Lee's army was on the march north to the fateful battle of Gettysburg, President Lincoln wrote a letter commenting on the arrest of a leading Confederate sympathizer legislator (or "Copperheads" as they were then known), U.S. Rep. Clement L. Valladigham (Democrat of Ohio).
It is so serious that the wall was never even approached when President Lincoln suspended the writ of habeas corpus, nor when President Roosevelt misled the public about the involvement in the Lend-Lease Program, nor when President Reagan misled the country and Congress about involvement with Iran-Contra.
In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation formally freeing all slaves in the Confederate States.
In 1863, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation designating the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.
It produces the Log Cabin syrup that debuted in 1887, named in honor of President Abraham Lincoln's boyhood home.
Roosevelt was the greatest American president since Lincoln, his colossal abilities tested by personal illness, economic catastrophe and world war.
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Obama infused his speech with references to two assassinated American icons -- President Abraham Lincoln and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
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In 1865, John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, died in a shoot-out with federal troops 11 days after Lincoln's death.
The act was introduced by Congressman Justin S. Morrill from Vermont and was signed into law on July 2, 1862 by President Abraham Lincoln.
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