It is named for Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president who led the nation through the Civil War in the eighteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.08.09

You can learn more about Abraham Lincoln on the Special English program "THIS IS AMERICA" at this time on Monday.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

President Obama will return to Illinois to celebrate Abraham Lincoln's two hundredth birthday at a big dinner in Springfield this Thursday.

VOA: special.2009.02.09

President Abraham Lincoln led the Union of northern states in four years of civil war against the southern Confederacy.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

On a cold and cloudy day in March of eighteen sixty-one, Abraham Lincoln became the sixteenth president of the United States.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

Abraham Lincoln was the only president in American history to lead the nation during a civil war in the eighteen sixties.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

In nineteen forty-two, orchestra conductor Andre Kostelanitz asked composer Aaron Copland to write a piece of music about Abraham Lincoln.

VOA: special.2011.02.07

Barbara Klein has more. The museum at Ford's Theatre was created to show Abraham Lincoln's life, and death,in Washington,D.C.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed at Ford's Theatre while watching a play with his wife in eighteen sixty-five.

VOA: special.2009.07.24

This week in our series, Kay Gallant and Frank Oliver tell the story of Abraham Lincoln's speech the Gettysburg Address.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

For the wise man who had led the Union through four years of bloody civil war Father Abraham -- was dead.

VOA: special.2010.01.07

Confederate leaders ordered the attack after President Abraham Lincoln refused to withdraw the small force of American soldiers at Sumter.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

He was found guilty of murder. Like those found guilty of plotting to kill Abraham Lincoln, he was hanged.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

In the presidential election of eighteen-sixty, he supported his party's candidate, not the candidate of the Republican Party: Abraham Lincoln.

VOA: special.2010.01.21