Why these men specifically? Each one made trips to Lafayette during their lifetimes and “not only visited, but made history.” ...

Frederick Douglass was the first black man to discuss politics alone with the president. In Lincoln, the reformer found an ...

Glenn Beck told a fun story about a recent visit to the White House, where he had a conversation with President Trump about ...

The Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum (ALLM) at Lincoln Memorial University (LMU) will host a lecture featuring Lincoln scholars Dr. Lucas Morel and Dr. Jonathan White on Thursday, October 30. A ...

The compendium arrives at a fraught moment when animus toward the Jewish people in the U.S. has reached heights not seen in generations.

In the post-Civil War South, the federal government worked to protect newly freed citizens and immigrants by establishing ...

When Frederick Douglass spoke in Cork on October 23, 1845, his message was clear and uncompromising. The formerly enslaved ...

The vice president doubts that America’s definition is found in a ‘proposition.’ ...

A leader in the abolitionist movement, Frederick Douglass gave one commencement speech in his life. That was in Hudson, where ...

Five weeks after Fort Sumter, the official starting point of the war, Ellsworth’s Fire Zouaves received the command to sail ...

Ken Burns joins David Frum to discuss how his new documentary captures both the triumphs and the tragedies of the nation’s founding. Plus: Donald Trump’s TikTok giveaway and Benjamin Nathans’s To the ...

During the Civil War, Confederates targ ...