Abraham Lincoln was a rail splitter, a riverboat hand, an inventor, a poet and importantly, a lawyer. Lincoln also knew how to tell a good story. In 1841, he defended William Trailor, one of three ...
Few days changed the course of American history like April 15, 1865 — when Abraham Lincoln died after being shot by actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth. WTOP’s Jimmy Alexander explores ...
Abraham Lincoln was born in Hardin County, Ky., on Feb. 12, 1809. His family moved to Indiana in 1816, and Lincoln lived there the rest of his youth. His mother died from a milk sickness when he was 9 ...