On January 1, 1863, after three years of a brutal Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation freeing Confederate slaves.
This section of Africans in America (a PBS special on the history of slavery) covers the Civil War years and Abraham Lincoln's presidency.
The Time of the Lincolns is a companion Web site to the PBS television special Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided.
Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States, led our nation through its greatest crisis, the Civil War. He helped end slavery and helped reunite our country. Before starting today's cyber tour of all things Lincoln, here's a bit of fun
David Davis, an Illinois judge and close friend of the Lincoln family, said this about Honest Abe: "From the humblest poverty, without education, or the means of attaining it; unaided by wealth or influential family connections, he rose, solely, by the st
"On the night of April 14, 1865 John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln who had been attending a play at Ford's Theater.
This single page illustrated time line of Lincoln's life begins in 1637 when Lincoln's ancestors arrived from England to settle in Hingham, Massachusetts.
