A new collection of primary source documents, "The 1863 Stibbs Family Civil War Era Letters," is the third set of letters ...

Citadel founder Ken Griffin paid $18.1 million for copies of the 13th Amendment and the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Abraham Lincoln.

Charles Sumner is best known as the statesman caned within an inch of his life on the Senate floor for speaking against the expansion of slavery.  Sumner counted among his friends Ralph Waldo Emerson, ...

The Lost Peace' by Jay Winik. T he most serious attempt to evade America's Civil War was probably doomed to fail, said Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker. But that effort at rec ...

President Donald Trump suggested that he could have handled the Civil War better than then-President Abraham Lincoln in a meeting with reporters at The White House on Wednesday. “The Civil War ...

We have Lincoln wrong: Our greatest Lincoln historian explains his real Civil War motivations Too often, we settle for the idea that Lincoln fought to save a mythical union. He really fought for ...

Book Review: ‘Lincoln’s Peace’ offers lessons for these times from the Civil War Michael Vorenberg’s book shines as a meticulously researched and artistically written examination of how ...

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 ...

Director on showing how sexual fluidity was accepted in Lincoln's time: "You know a love letter when you see it" ...

A wax statue of Abraham Lincoln melted in a heatwave in Washington DC, part of Sandy Williams IV's Wax Monument Series highlighting Civil War history.

In his famous 1858 speech, Abraham Lincoln warned that only civil war would resolve the issue of slavery in the U.S. He wasn’t wrong.

SPRINGFIELD — Following the Confederacy’s 1861 attack on Fort Sumter, often viewed as the event that sparked the Civil War, then-President Abraham Lincoln had to decide how to retaliate ...