On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected ... also northerners who resisted the war effort. Some were pacifists. Others were white men who resented the fact that the army was drafting ...

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

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

American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

Sixty-four years ago, the Estes Park Trail, predecessor to the Estes Park Trail-Gazette, ran columns highlighting the ...

In the new documentary Lover of Men: The Untold Story of Abraham Lincoln ... Later in his life, Lincoln had another close relationship with an army officer in the Civil War named Elmer Ellsworth.

When Abraham Lincoln was preparing ... “We don’t have proof” that Lincoln did the cutting and pasting, said Michelle Krowl, a Civil War historian at the Library of Congress.

National Park Service employees dust the statue of President Abraham ... The Civil War had been grinding on for almost four years, though it was nearly over by March 1865. Lincoln doesn’t ...