Boritt was born in Budapest in 1940 and survived World War II, although relatives were killed in the Auschwitz Nazi death ...
He may be known as the Great Emancipator, but Abraham Lincoln was first and foremost a party leader.
T here is no shortage of books on the period surrounding America’s civil war. Canonical classics include “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, ...
Abraham Lincoln's timeless words highlight personal resolve as paramount to success. In today's world of distractions and ...
Historians love to track what and how former presidents ate. Abraham Lincoln had his quirks much like many other famous ...
The first shot of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War was fired by a man from DuPage County. Lt. Marcellus E. Jones of the 8th Illinois Calvary was on patrol outside Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, ...
STARKVILLE, Miss.—Anne E. Marshall, Mississippi State Department of History professor and executive director of the Ulysses S ...
On March 4, 1861, Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office to become the first Republican president in American history. Two ...
For America to be bereft of Lincoln’s leadership in the wake of the civil war, which had effectively ended with Robert E. Lee ...
More than a century before streaming platforms and superhero cinematic universes, American filmmakers were already chasing ...
Historian Allen Guelzo will speak at Lincoln’s 217th birthday banquet Feb. 12 in Springfield. A free symposium follows on Feb ...