What would the 16th president think of Trump’s immigration woes?

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 ...

“And, sure enough, when he was president, Abraham Lincoln issued passports to blacks in the Western territory of the U.S., in direct defiance, actually, of the Dred Scott case.” The lawyer ...

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 ...

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 ...

Abraham Lincoln remains a tragic historical figure, gunned down by an assassin just days after winning the nation's bloodiest war. A Republican lawyer from the backwoods who produced the most ...

Before his famous debates, before the Civil War rent the nation, before he helped end slavery and before his tragic assassination, Abraham Lincoln had New ... a Bloomington, Illinois, lawyer and ...