A previously unknown and unpublished letter from President Abraham Lincoln has been recovered for the first time.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, ...

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

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

The short, unpublished letter had been in the same private collection for at least a century before it was acquired by the Raab Collection in Pennsylvania earlier this year.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

Crawford County Civil War Roundtable member Henry Burkholder will present "Team of Rivals" at the group's meeting Wednesday at 7 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church on Liberty Street in Meadville.

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 ...

In 1864, amid the U.S. Civil War, Abraham Lincoln was elected to his second term as president. He was assassinated five months later. In 1889, Montana was admitted to the union as the 41st state. In ...

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A previously unpublished letter by Abraham Lincoln that offers insight on his management of the Civil War sold Wednesday for $85,000.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 ...