Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, was born in a single-room log cabin on Sinking Spring Farm in LaRue County, Kentucky on Feb. 12, 1809. He was the son of Thomas Lincoln, an ...
It is one of my duties as Minnesota's commissioner on the national Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission to outline the president's impact upon Minnesota. It is appropriate to highlight Lincoln and ...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Folksy, melancholy Abraham Lincoln would have been dumbfounded by the fuss over his birthday Thursday. Bells tolled, wreaths were laid, speeches intoned and banjos picked to mark ...