Grant, the Lakota chief agreed to sit for Mathew Brady, famed for his Civil ... He also won recognition for his images of Abraham Lincoln and other leading figures. He made his mark not with ...

Lincoln senior Brady Holland gets ready to throw the shot put during the Cardinals’ Portland Interscholastic League dual meet at Wells. / Dan Brood PORTLAND — Brady Holland was looking to take ...

Abraham Lincoln, the greatest American president, was also in my view the best of all presidential speechwriters. As a youngster in Lincoln, Nebraska, I stood before the statue of the president ...

Abraham Lincoln was our tallest president. At 6-foot-4, he would stand out even today, and he certainly towered over the men and women of his era. The top hat he habitually wore in public made him ...

He has done something for his race and for the world of mankind.” On May 30, Abraham Lincoln signed a law awarding prize money to Smalls for delivering the Planter and its cargo to federal ...

Hetrick argues that Stevens’ memory was unfairly subordinated to that of Abraham Lincoln’s. “The genius of Lincoln is that he listened to Thaddeus Stevens,” Hetrick says. A statue of ...