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Abraham Lincoln is born in Hodgenville, KY. A log cabin with one window, one door, one chimney, and a hard-packed dirt floor
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A poster for a runaway slave with a reward of $400, dead or alive!
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A news paper drawing of Preston Brooks attacking Charles Sumner.
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Jefferson Davis was elected president of the southern confederate states of America.
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Lincoln reads the Emancipation Proclamation to his cabinet.The Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves.
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Lincoln rides on his horse to Gettysburg to speak the Gettysburg address.
