He may be known as the Great Emancipator, but Abraham Lincoln was first and foremost a party leader.

GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — History professor Gabor S. Boritt, a Hungarian immigrant to the United States who wrote widely about the Civil War and President Abraham Lincoln, has died. He was 86.

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Anne E. Marshall, Mississippi State Department of History professor and executive director of the Ulysses S ...

Local historian and avid memorabilia collector Robert F. Henderson joined members of the Southern Indiana Lincoln Community this past Sunday to ...

For America to be bereft of Lincoln’s leadership in the wake of the civil war, which had effectively ended with Robert E. Lee ...

In the years leading up to the Civil War, Lockport had become a fulcrum point for abolitionists, according to researcher ...

From Abraham Lincoln's patent to James A. Garfield's geometry proof, learn how these 19th- and 20th-century commanders in ...

A portrait of church founder Joseph Smith Jr. has been added to Morehouse College’s International Hall of Honor in Atlanta — ...

Economist Robert Barro has questioned the necessity of fighting a war in this country to end slavery. In this week's Friday ...

The mid-20th century had a stable political majority and an increasingly powerful presidency — and yet dodged the civil rights issue for decades. That doesn’t exactly light up a clear pathway out of ...