News

A previously unknown and unpublished Civil War-era letter from President Abraham Lincoln has been acquired by the Raab Collection — and is being sold for $85,000. Here are details.
In recent weeks, historical sites and societies throughout the country have been marking the 151st anniversary of the end of the Civil War and the death of Abraham Lincoln. In the Harry T. Peters ...
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 ...
A previously unpublished letter by Abraham Lincoln that offers insight on his management of the Civil War sold Wednesday for $85,000.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 ...
Pritzkers donate Lincoln's Civil War order to blockade Southern ports to state museum The fateful 163-year-old document had been in an anonymous private collection until its purchase at auction by ...
The Civil War was newly ended, and steamboats were regularly traveling up the Mississippi River to take soldiers back to their homes. One such steamboat, the Sultana, left Vicksburg on April 24 to ...
Abraham Lincoln and the “Black Republican Party,” as the Southern press almost universally referred to his political home, had supposedly placed a Black man a heartbeat away from the presidency.
Documents from the National Archive show that then President Abraham Lincoln pardoned one of President Joe Biden's ancestors during the Civil War.
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 ...
A recently discovered letter written by President Abraham Lincoln that offers a glimpse into his thinking during the early part of the Civil War sold this week in Pennsylvania for $85,000 ...