As the world's largest economy, the United States attracts global attention. Let's discover the most influential U.S. presidents in history.

In 1860, Abraham Lincoln defied the odds by winning the Republican nomination and the presidency after a lifetime of struggles that included clinical depression, personal bankruptcy, losing reelection ...

Trump has built his political career in part by doing something unusual for U.S. presidents: Attacking other presidents.

and northern Republican Abraham Lincoln. After the Civil War, Americans realigned into broad coalitions. The Republican Party gained dominance in the North and West, while the Democratic Party ...

In American history, only a few presidents ran for the presidency without college degrees. Here are 10 U.S. presidents ...

On Election Night, Lewiston’s telegraph office, located in the Journal building at the time, “was the scene of the most ...

After the American Civil War Battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3 1863), taken in conjunction with Grant’s capture of Vicksburg on ...

Union cause. But many Republicans in Congress were urging him to take a stand for freedom. In 1862, under his authority as commander in chief, Lincoln drafted and issued the Emancipation Proclamation, ...

A close second might be the brief speech Abraham Lincoln made to commemorate the cemetery at Gettysburg ... and dedicated to ...

and probably the most important since 1860 when Abraham Lincoln was elected to the presidency and the fate of the country was in the balance," said ABC News presidential historian Mark Updegrove.

"I said, 'does that include Abe Lincoln?,'" Trump told supporters ... a professor of government at Claremont McKenna College and a former Republican who has studied conservative politics ...

Republican former California Governor Ronald Reagan defeated incumbent Democratic President Jimmy Carter in a landslide,… Republican former Vice President Richard Nixon defeated Democratic Vice ...