"A house divided against itself cannot stand.  I believe this government cannot endure permanently half-slave and half-free.  I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided.  It will become all one thing or all the other."
-Abraham Lincoln

Learn more about the man that became president during one of the most turbulent times in American history.  Abraham Lincoln was president at a time in which he was able to use his unique abilities to reunite a divided country.  This web site will provide a variety of resources to explore the life of the legendary Abraham Lincoln.

“That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
-Abraham Lincoln