Lincoln led through crisis by aligning decisive action with a long horizon, turning the fight to save the Union into a moral ...

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After a long treatise on the illegality of secession, Lincoln closed with a single flourish. His plea to the “better angels ...

Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War will be the topic of the next — and next-to-last — Trumbull Town Hall lecture. Louis Masur, a professor of American Studies and History at Rutgers University, will ...

In October 2020, during what was dubbed “Indigenous Peoples Day of Rage,” protesters toppled the Abraham Lincoln and Theodore ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Tom Wheeler provided a brief history of the telegraph. The Virginia Center for Civil War Studies at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg hosted this ...

In “Abraham Lincoln’s Unchurched Faith” (Houses of Worship, Feb. 9), Allen Guelzo draws conclusions about Lincoln’s church attitudes without noting the president’s experience at the New York Avenue ...

Today I was thinking about the Civil War, and I was singing an old Appalachian ballad called “Twilight Is Stealing,” written ...

Abraham Lincoln pardoned President Biden's great-great-grandfather after a late-night Civil War-era brawl, documents reportedly show, linking the two presidents across the centuries. The court-martial ...

One hundred sixty-three years after multiple Southern states seceded from the Union rather than accept a new president who was hostile to slavery, the origin of the Civil War is looming over another ...