Commentary: Ending all vestiges of slavery would remain unfinished business for years. That’s because slavery was deeply ...

The 1860 presidential election, which saw Abraham Lincoln win without Southern support, intensified divisions over slavery ...

Perhaps your history teachers failed to alert you to these Civil War facts: Jefferson Davis nearly got mugged by an angry female mob; Abraham Lincoln loved the Confederate anthem "Dixie," and Paul ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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Gettysburg Address, the fight against slavery and the battle for freedom provide historical perspective on principles of the Revolution and practice of slavery ...