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The 65 pages that link to Abraham Lincoln, each with the reason it gives.

• American Civil WarRelated: His leadership held the Union together and transformed the war's stated purpose.

• Slavery in the United StatesRelated: His wartime decisions linked Union victory to constitutional abolition.

• Emancipation ProclamationRelated: As commander in chief, Lincoln issued and defended the order.

• Republican PartyBroader topic: His 1860 election made the new party a national governing force.

• Mexican–American WarRelated: His Spot Resolutions challenged Polk’s account of the border clash that initiated hostilities.

• Ulysses S. GrantRelated: Lincoln promoted Grant to command all Union armies in 1864 and backed his strategy.

• Dred Scott v. SandfordRelated: Lincoln condemned the ruling during the 1858 debates and made its implications central to national politics.

• Sojourner TruthRelated: Truth met Lincoln at the White House in 1864 and supported formerly enslaved people’s welfare.

• National Academy of SciencesRelated: Lincoln approved the Academy’s charter during the Civil War.

• Kansas–Nebraska ActRelated: The act drew Lincoln back into national politics and sharpened his opposition to slavery’s expansion.

• Political assassinationBroader topic: His murder altered the course of postwar Reconstruction and national mourning.

• President of the United StatesBroader topic: Lincoln’s wartime actions tested and expanded understandings of presidential power.

• United States Declaration of IndependenceRelated: He treated the declaration’s equality principle as a founding commitment that the nation had failed to fulfill.

• Henry ClayRelated: Lincoln called Clay his political ideal and inherited the Whig tradition Clay helped build.

• Lajos KossuthRelated: Kossuth’s American tour made him a celebrated advocate of liberty before Lincoln’s presidency.

• Union Pacific RailroadRelated: Lincoln selected the eastern starting point for Union Pacific’s construction under the act.

• Harriet Beecher StoweRelated: A famous, possibly apocryphal exchange links Lincoln’s wartime reception of Stowe to her novel’s influence.

• Transcontinental RailroadRelated: Lincoln signed the Pacific Railway Act and selected the eastern starting point at Omaha.

• Anaconda PlanRelated: Lincoln considered Scott’s proposal while shaping the Union’s early war aims.

• Andrew JohnsonCompared with: Johnson inherited Lincoln’s presidency, but their distinct approaches to postwar policy make their relationship contested.

• Franklin PierceCompared with: Lincoln’s wartime leadership stands in sharp contrast to Pierce’s inability to contain sectional division.

• George B. McClellanRelated: Lincoln repeatedly pressed McClellan to act and removed him from command after Antietam.

• Jefferson DavisCompared with: Lincoln was Davis’s Union counterpart and chief adversary during the war.

• Union ArmyRelated: Lincoln appointed generals, set war aims, and authorized emancipation.

• Act of AbjurationRelated: Lincoln later cited the Dutch declaration as a precedent for the American Declaration of Independence.

• James BuchananCompared with: Lincoln succeeded Buchanan as the secession crisis became war.

• Thomas NastRelated: Lincoln praised Nast’s influence and called him one of the Union’s most effective recruiting sergeants.

• Executive orderRelated: Lincoln’s wartime directives helped expand the practical use of presidential orders.

• Gettysburg AddressRelated: His presidency and wartime leadership shaped the speech’s argument about national survival.

• KentuckyRelated: Lincoln was born in Kentucky, though his family left when he was a child.

• Millard FillmoreCompared with: Lincoln’s leadership during war contrasts with Fillmore’s unsuccessful effort to preserve unity through compromise.

• ThanksgivingRelated: His proclamation established a recurring national date during the Civil War.

• William H. SewardRelated: Seward served as Lincoln’s secretary of state and became a close adviser during the Civil War.

• William Tecumseh ShermanRelated: Lincoln’s re-election followed Sherman’s capture of Atlanta, and Sherman later sent him the news of Savannah’s capture.

• Daniel WebsterRelated: Lincoln later invoked Webster’s Unionist legacy in defending national unity.

• History of the United StatesRelated: His wartime choices altered the Union’s purpose and the status of enslaved people.

• James Russell LowellRelated: Lowell’s wartime writing supported the Union cause and praised Lincoln’s leadership.

• Winfield ScottRelated: Lincoln relied on Scott as general-in-chief at the war’s outset.

• Mathew BradyRelated: Lincoln credited Brady’s photographs with helping him gain public recognition during the 1860 campaign.

• Mount RushmoreBroader topic: His face represents the preservation of the Union during the Civil War.

• Sarah Josepha HaleRelated: He issued the 1863 Thanksgiving proclamation after Hale urged him to establish a national observance.

• Stephen A. DouglasRelated: Lincoln challenged Douglas in the 1858 Senate campaign, turning their debates into a national political event.

• Horace GreeleyRelated: Greeley’s editorials pressured Lincoln during the Civil War, especially over emancipation and the war’s conduct.

• John Wilkes BoothRelated: Lincoln was Booth’s target and the central figure in the assassination.

• Roger B. TaneyRelated: Lincoln’s suspension of habeas corpus prompted Taney’s direct judicial challenge in Ex parte Merryman.

• Allan PinkertonRelated: Pinkerton’s operatives helped protect Lincoln during his 1861 journey to Washington.

• Carleton WatkinsRelated: The federal grant signed by Lincoln placed Yosemite’s preservation within national political history.

• Francis LieberRelated: Lincoln authorized the military commission that produced the code Lieber drafted.

• Henry Ward BeecherRelated: Beecher supported Lincoln’s Union and emancipation policies through prominent public addresses.

• Jay CookeRelated: Lincoln’s administration relied on the federal war finance that Cooke helped make possible.