The first Congressional Medals of Honor were presented by President Abraham Lincoln on March 25, 1863. South Dakota’s version of the law officially takes effect July 1. Ten people from South ...

What is now South Dakota was among the northern Plains ... He planned to carve George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt from head to waist, but died in 1941 ...

Major Acts In practical terms, the achievements of Abraham Lincoln are mammoth, yet simple to describe: he confronted the secession of the South and the dissolution of the Union with all the political ...

PIERRE — A hotly debated funding bill that would transfer most of the last batch of money needed to pay for a new men's prison in South Dakota has ... be located on old Lincoln County farmland ...

Today, Abraham Lincoln is widely revered as one of the greatest U.S. presidents. His face is on the penny, the $5 bill, and Mount Rushmore, in South Dakota. The Lincoln Memorial, in Washington ...

He was named after his father's favorite president, Abraham Lincoln ... While still a boy, Lincoln accompanied his father to South Dakota and was present when the site of Rushmore was selected.