An 1861 job-reference letter from Abraham Lincoln on behalf of a young Black friend and valet provides a glimpse of an ...

Abraham Lincoln's 1861 handwritten letter recommending his Black friend William Johnson for a job is now on display at the ...

The Vermont Humanities Council recently launched its Civil War Book of Days e-newsletter in honor of the Civil War’s 150th anniversary. The weekly newsletter is sent electronically for free to anyone ...

As his last summer-break adventure, 12-year-old Max Maybee visited the Detroit Public Library for the first time — and learned some lessons that will help him as he starts the seventh grade this week.

The short, unpublished letter had been in the same private collection for at least a century before it was acquired by the Raab Collection in Pennsylvania earlier this year. By Johnny Diaz and ...