US Presidents 16–20: Lincoln to Garfield and the Fight for Reconstruction
Explore US presidents 16–20, from Lincoln to Garfield: their parties, achievements, controversies and the struggle over freedom after the Civil War.
Explore US presidents 16–20, from Lincoln to Garfield: their parties, achievements, controversies and the struggle over freedom after the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln’s life began in a Kentucky log cabin and ended in a Washington boarding house after an assassin’s attack. Between those two places, he became a lawyer, a husband and father, and the sixteenth president of the United States. He led the country through the Civil War and helped turn the struggle to preserve…