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What would the 16th president think of Trump’s immigration woes?
In addition to being president, Abraham Lincoln was the post-master of New Salem; he also offered services as a wood chopper, county deputy surveyor, and lawyer. Abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room ...
President Donald Trump should follow Abraham Lincoln in responding to judicial overreach, former appeals court clerk Josh Hammer says.
This film narrates the life of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, from his humble beginnings in a poor Pioneer family in Kentucky to his rise as a prominent lawyer and ...
The tiny central Illinois village, where Lincoln accidentally spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, perhaps did as much to ...
Eight score and two years ago, President Abraham Lincoln signed the False Claims Act into federal law. The anti-fraud tool, enacted March 2, 1863, became known as Lincoln’s Law. Our 16th ...
NMAH/SI Upon hearing the name Abraham Lincoln, many images may come to mind: rail-splitter, country lawyer, young congressman, embattled president, Great Emancipator, assassin's victim ...
"Nance: A Girl of Color and Her Lawyer Abraham Lincoln" (Pangaeus Press) details the story of Nance Legins-Costley, whose case has long been a footnote in history. The book's author Kevin Orlin ...