Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.

Phillip Stone, a Harrisonburg lawyer who has served as president of Bridgewater College and Sweet Briar College, holds an ...

On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the ... Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia ...

The film, discovered last summer in a basement archive, sheds light on early 20th century depictions of the Civil War and the ...

He led a deeply divided country into civil war. Lincoln had to raise a citizen’s army of volunteers who were willing to die for the Union; find generals capable to lead them; and finance the war.

If there is one general that could be considered as having single-handedly lost the Civil War for the Confederates, it’s John ...

The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. Does it offer any insight into the mysterious ...

Historians consistently rank Abraham Lincoln as the greatest U.S. president. Without his leadership and political brilliance, ...

Mill State Park will offer an event that explores the hardships winter presented for soldiers of the Civil War on Feb. 22-23.

National Park Service employees dust the statue of President Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in May 2022. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post) I decided, the other evening, to walk to the ...

Mill State Park will offer an event that explores the hardships winter presented for soldiers of the Civil War on Feb. 22-23. The Pioneer Village will be open from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. each day with ...