Abraham Lincoln served as Commander in Chief during the nation’s darkest hour, guiding the Union through the Civil War with ...

Although another Thanksgiving has come and gone, it’s not too late to recall what historians tell us about the first Thanksgiving. It happened a little over 400 years ago. It ...

Abraham Lincoln officially recognized Thanksgiving during a time of national pain that mirrors modern-day life in Chicago.

The shrine’s annual re-enactment of the Gettysburg address, delivered by Lincoln at a cemetery dedication in Gettysburg, ...

I do invite my fellow-citizens to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a Day of Thanksgiving, ...

Historian Richard Hofstadter was a well-known progressive, but his take on Abraham Lincoln certainly differs from the ...

Perhaps your history teachers failed to alert you to these Civil War facts: Jefferson Davis nearly got mugged by an angry female mob; Abraham Lincoln loved the Confederate anthem "Dixie," and Paul ...

Ohioans will sit down to a table of turkey, mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie Thursday, but traditional Thanksgiving foods are ...

The Sons of Union Veterans of the American Civil War hope readers can help them find George M Green who lived in Hull in the 1940s ...

In the last days of a devastating civil war, President Abraham Lincoln's thoughts turned to passages in William Shakespeare's "Macbeth." It was his favorite Shakespeare play. In a letter to an actor, ...

The Nov. 22 event includes music and live artillery demonstrations, in addition to a recitation of the Gettysburg Address.

… [S]outhern Indians too were divided in their feelings toward the Confederacy…. By the winter of 1861–62, a full-blown civil war was under way among the Indians, adding a further dimension to ...