Category: Abraham Lincoln

The Great Emancipator, Abraham Lincoln is the most popular American president around the globe due to his remarkable life history. Lincoln was always determined to change the dynamics of American politics and he used to borrow law books from his counselor who was a state legislator at that time. Like any other political leader, it…

Roosevelt wanted to protect the average worker, break up monopolies, regulate railroad rates, and protect the food and drug supply. Roosevelt created the Forest Service to manage forest reserves. He expanded national parks and forests. The United States would police Latin America to guarantee that countries met their international obligation. Roosevelt helped Panama secede from…

Throughout history, the United States has had many great leaders who have helped the country grow into what it is today. Each president is unique and each of them directly or indirectly has a huge impact on the American people, thereby shaping the vision of Americans of different generations about themselves. Every American has a…

America has always carried the desire to ignore its past and live in its view of itself as a melting pot. America wants us all to forgive and forget the past to be one people. How can we forgive the past if this country wont even acknowledge its true sins instead of the cookie-cutter version…

Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr are both leaders and have influenced countless people with similar beliefs and wanted to achieve goals that were almost identical to one another. Both men were leaders at different times in history but they both fought for civil rights for African Americans. Lincolns Second Inaugural Address and Martin…

Oftentimes when we take a look at the storied history of our US presidents, we see what each president has contributed to our great nation, the United States of America. Personally, I look at the stamp they put on our history. Always up for debate is who made the most impact during their presidency. And…

Abraham Lincoln, who served as the sixteenth president of America, was an American statesman and lawyer who led the nation through the American Civil War. His second inaugural speech was delivered on the 4th of March 1865, towards the end of the Civil War and a month before he was assassinated. His speech touched on…

Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president of the United States of America, and Jefferson Davis, the first and last President of the Confederate States of America share many similarities and differences in multiple aspects of their life elementally including their education, presidency, military experience, and specifically political standpoint. The way you are raised in life creates…

In recent years, people have begun to reexamine the notion of Lincoln being the biggest force behind freeing the slaves. The majority view it as a black-and-white issue where either Lincoln was a great emancipator, solely responsible for the freeing of slaves, or he was a racist opportunist who did not truly care about slavery,…

One of the most difficult challenges to accept and do is change. One of the most complicated things about changing is adapting to the transformation of things. People struggle to get to where they are and some people do not struggle as much as others. Just like individual people, our nation has struggled in several…