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

It was the first reported drop in American cancer cases and deaths since the nation began collecting such information.

VOA: special.2009.01.13

Yet the situation did cause a great deal of tension while the nation waited to see if Garfield would survive.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

As the nation prepared for a presidential election year, the South renewed its promise to defend slavery or leave the Union.

VOA: special.2009.07.02

And it had put to rest the great problem of slavery, which had troubled the nation for so many years.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

Republicans say the plan would add to the nation's debt, raise insurance costs and expand government involvement in health care.

VOA: special.2009.11.13

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

Ford himself put an end to his chances by telling the nation that it was "perfectly safe with Coolidge."

VOA: special.2011.01.27

The Chronicle of Philanthropy just reported the findings of its latest survey of the nation's four hundred biggest charities.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

And expanding and developing this science and engineering workforce is critical to the nation's economic innovation and productivity and competitiveness."

VOA: special.2010.04.01

On April fourth, the nation's top civil rights leader, the Reverend Martin Luther King,Junior, was shot and killed in Memphis,Tennessee.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

At the same time, the nation's biggest insurance company, American International Group, had gotten into trouble selling credit default swaps.

VOA: special.2009.01.02

That is because it became a state in eighteen seventy-six, exactly one hundred years after the nation declared its independence.

VOA: special.2009.08.02

a war that was costing the government three million dollars a day and the lives of the nation's young men.

VOA: special.2009.12.10