The latest in an intermittent series looking back at groundbreaking, newsmaking, appalling and amusing events in government history. In early April 1865, President Abraham Lincoln made a bold decision ...

Imagine a federal initiative that builds a nationwide system of universities and colleges equipped to educate and train every ...

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 ...

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

In a quiet testament to his friend, Abraham Linc personally handled William Johnson's wages and paid for his coffin.

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In “Abraham Lincoln’s Unchurched Faith” (Houses of Worship, Feb. 9), Allen Guelzo draws conclusions about Lincoln’s church attitudes without noting the president’s experience at the New York Avenue ...

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 ...