Abraham Lincoln is best known for his role as a wartime president, but his economic policies were a precursor to the New Deal ...

This lesson compares the experiences, roles, and legacies of Mary Todd Lincoln and Varina Davis, the wives of the Civil War era presidents. The lesson, which features historian Kelly Hancock speaking ...

For 250 years, the US Army has adapted as a living organization composed of operating units and institutional organizations ...

Facing the crisis of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln drew on religious feeling to help galvanize the North—and to bolster his ...

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 ...

Redlands’ Lincoln Memorial ... “The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West,” speaking on “The American Civil War in the Desert ...

Grant, commander of the Union Army in the Civil War and a future president of the ... were among the pallbearers who escorted Pres. Abraham Lincoln’s coffin from the White House to the Capitol ...

Hughes was one of the nearly 4 million men, women and children enslaved during the American Civil War. At the time of ... A year before President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation ...

Last week, we celebrated Idaho Day — the day President Abraham Lincoln declared Idaho a territory of the United States on March 4, 1863. This comes after celebrating Lincoln’s birthday ...