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, will ...

Abraham Lincoln said goodbye to his friend for the last time as they left the meeting that afternoon. It was Friday, April 14 ...

The film recounts the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln, focusing on his assassination at Ford's Theater on April 14, 1865, ...

This lesson compares the experiences, roles, and legacies of Mary Todd Lincoln and Varina Davis, the wives of the Civil War era presidents. The lesson, which features historian Kelly Hancock speaking ...

Abraham Lincoln is best known for his role as a wartime president, but his economic policies were a precursor to the New Deal ...

On April 15, 1861, after Fort Sumter fell to Confederate Army forces, Pres. Abraham Lincoln issued his call to arms for ...

Facing the crisis of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln drew on religious feeling to help galvanize the North—and to bolster his ...

For 250 years, the US Army has adapted as a living organization composed of operating units and institutional organizations ...

Is that a call for a civil war? Kinda sounds like it to me. Are there any solutions to the current horrid division in America ...

As a young man in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln was a religious ... an emeritus Rhodes professor of American history at Oxford University, tackles a topic many Civil War scholars have tended to ...