On July 4, the United States of America will celebrate its 250th anniversary. There’s also another major historical ...

Portrait of American President Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865) (painted by George P. Healy, mid-late 1800s), (Photo by Katherine Young/Getty Images) In his 2007 book “Land of Lincoln: Adventures in ...

William H. Mumler found a way to cash in on a nation’s grief—until skeptics exposed his images as frauds. William H. Mumler's ghostly portraits were all the rage in 19th-century America. Then he was ...

Dan Shannon of Anderson Township has created a national contest to find the best poem about America. Poet Thomas Buchanan Read wrote the famous Civil War poem “Sheridan’s Ride” in Cincinnati, first ...

Abraham Lincoln’s first inaugural address is a dense, technical affair. Delivered in March 1861, before the outbreak of the Civil War but after seven states had left the Union, it could hardly have ...

Please join us for Lincoln and the Constitution: The 13th Amendment, a conversation between scholars. Guest scholars include Brandi C. Brimmer, the Morehead-Cain Alumni Associate Professor at the ...

President Abraham Lincoln signed the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation 162 years ago this week. To celebrate, dozens of people gathered for the unveiling of a new presidential statue outside the ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Noted Civil War experts Brandi C. Brimmer and Judith Giesberg are leading a discussion on the 16th president and the amendment abolishing slavery during the eighth annual Frank and ...

Award winning author George Rable concentrates on the relationship between commander-in-chief Lincoln and general-in-chief McLellan, one which produced some very real successes early in the war, but ...

In his more grandiose moments, Donald Trump likes to proclaim himself the greatest president in U.S. history. Greater even than Abraham Lincoln. Just recently, Trump raised the stakes in his historic ...

Bullet to the brain, from one farm boy to another. When John Wilkes Booth fired a .44 lead ball into Abraham Lincoln’s head, the murder shook a nation to its core and led to 13 days of bedlam rivaling ...

We often think of emotional intelligence as an obsession with being nice or kind, but it’s more complex than that. In 1855, Abraham Lincoln was 46 and a relatively unknown lawyer who specialized in ...