The Homestead Act was signed by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20th, 1862 and is now approaching its 160-year anniversary. “I think without the Homestead Act and without as many different ...

Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.

Hutchinson might be hundreds of miles from the Land of Lincoln, but there are good reasons to celebrate Abraham Lincoln’s birth on this day 200 years ago. Is it because our 16th president ...

Abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room log cabin in Hardin County ... He kept his promise and issued the Emancipation Proclamation on New Year’s Day in 1863. In the Homestead Act of 1862, Lincoln ...

Major Acts In practical terms, the achievements of Abraham Lincoln are mammoth ... a transcontinental railway and the Morrill Act to settle western lands, he laid the foundations of the modern state.

Lyndon Johnson worked on an uncle's ranch. Later he had his own LBJ Ranch in Texas. Dwight Eisenhower bought a farm in ...

The Homestead Act of 1862 was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln. This act had huge impacts ...

Rep. Dean Urdahl, Minnesota’s Commissioner to the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, and Rep. Paul Gardner have announced plans to observe the 200th anniversary of President ...

Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln ... to practicing law, Lincoln was morally outraged at the 1854 passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which gave states the ...