A new collection of primary source documents, "The 1863 Stibbs Family Civil War Era Letters," is the third set of letters ...

In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

Citadel founder Ken Griffin paid $18.1 million for copies of the 13th Amendment and the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Abraham Lincoln.

Charles Sumner is best known as the statesman caned within an inch of his life on the Senate floor for speaking against the expansion of slavery.  Sumner counted among his friends Ralph Waldo Emerson, ...

“It came to our attention that not all of the names were, in fact, on our Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Monument,” said Judy Tighe, director of Jacksonville Main Street.

In a time of tense partisan clashes, Capitol Hill has a trusted leader in Jane L. Campbell, president and CEO of the U.S. Capitol Historical Society. Campbell's focus is far from skirmishes but rather ...

The Lost Peace' by Jay Winik. T he most serious attempt to evade America's Civil War was probably doomed to fail, said Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker. But that effort at rec ...

Before the presidency, Donald Trump made a name for himself in the media as a real estate and business mogul, hosting the reality TV show "The Apprentice" from 2004 to 2015, and serving as a guest ...

Alongside Shaun Peterson’s documentary “Lover of Men: The Untold History of Abraham Lincoln” and Cole Escola’s Tony-winning play, “Oh, Mary!,” ...

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, United States. Military Telegraph Corps, United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Publisher New York : Century Co. Collection civilwardocuments; americana Contributor ...

Donald Trump believes he could have handled Civil War better than Abraham Lincoln Donald Trump told the reporters on Wednesday, "The Civil War, it always seemed to me maybe that could've been solved ...