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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A previously unknown and unpublished letter from President Abraham Lincoln has been recovered for the first time. The Civil War-era letter, which was part of a private collection for over a century, ...

The short, unpublished letter had been in the same private collection for at least a century before it was acquired by the Raab Collection in Pennsylvania earlier this year.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

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 ...

“Lincoln’s Peace” offers a pair of fascinating what ifs. Had the Union maintained a larger and stronger post-Civil War occupying army, could it have banished all the residual slavery practices and ...

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 ...

A previously unpublished letter by Abraham Lincoln that offers insight on his management of the Civil War sold Wednesday for $85,000. The letter, dated Aug. 19, 1861—during the first year of the Civil ...