January 1: President Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation ... the president and his lenient Reconstruction policies. Fall: Following the president's ruinous campaign, the mid-term elections ...

cost us the life of Abraham Lincoln." The rival parties of the Reconstruction era were not ... but scarcely less emotional. During the campaign of 1868, Edwin M. Stanton, whose conversion to ...

Lincoln had struggled to heal the wounds of war, yet he became one of its last victims, and the war left the country no less divided. Abraham Lincoln ... In his campaign, he promised to pursue ...

On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the ... This period would be called Reconstruction. It would hold many promises and many tragic disappointments. It was the beginning ...

Major Acts In practical terms, the achievements of Abraham Lincoln are mammoth ... prevented him from overseeing the reconstruction of the Union he had helped save. The assassination also had the ...

Lincoln suffered from “melancholia,” the nineteenth-century term for clinical depression. He would enter such bouts that would last for weeks on end. Campaign Abraham Lincoln became president at the ...

The exhibits help residents and visitors learn more about Abraham Lincoln ... More: Born a woman, fought as a man: Looking for Lincoln campaign to share Albert Cashier story Many of the exhibits ...

A Southern supporter of the Union who balanced the ticket in Abraham Lincoln's 1864 reelection, Johnson led the Southern Reconstruction effort following the president's assassination. Conflicts ...

Lincoln had struggled to heal the wounds of war, yet he became one of its last victims, and the war left the country no less divided. Abraham Lincoln ... In his campaign, he promised to pursue ...

Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham ... The campaign was characterized by a series of outstanding and well-attended debates. In his acceptance speech, Lincoln criticized ...