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Lincoln’s secretary of the treasury helped win the Civil War with his many financial innovations and was an ardent advocate of emancipation.

The president worried that his grandson had “an unconquerable indolence of temper, and a dereliction, in fact, to all study.”

In his Second Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln embodied leading in a time of polarization, political disagreement, and differing understandings of reality.

From ancestral homes of George Washington to World War II runways, there are many sites in the U.K. where you can encounter American's past.

The unique political genius of Abraham Lincoln was to navigate carefully and at times conservatively between abolition and the Southern cause until he knew the time was right for radical justice.

The World Trade Center attack wasn’t the first time New York was brutally assaulted — 225 years before, George Washington watched the city burn from his headquarters in northern Manhattan after painful military defeats.

Our first president spoke about abolishing slavery, but couldn’t manage without the unpaid labor of hundreds of people at Mount Vernon.

“There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law,” said Abraham Lincoln.

Fierce debate among early political factions led to many allegations of misdeeds and abuse of power in Washington's administration, but there was no serious misconduct.