Citadel founder Ken Griffin paid $18.1 million for copies of the 13th Amendment and the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Abraham Lincoln.Griffin intends to loan the documents, which were ...

Each winner of the 2025 Dr. Eugene and Dr. Maxine Hankins Cain Lansing Juneteenth Essay Competition and Scholarship Program ...

Signs posted at Fort Moultrie and Fort Sumter ask visitors to report any information they experienced that may place American ...

The Lost Peace' by Jay Winik. The 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 reco ...

After he was elected president in 1860, Abraham Lincoln was faced with filling patronage positions in the Washington Territory. Just eight years old, the Washington Territory needed territorial suprem ...

Not only is June 20th the first day of summer, but it’s also the day commemorating one state’s quest for statehood.

For generations, Black Americans have recognized the end of one of history's darkest chapters with joy — such as parades or ...

I was hooked when I learned she was a spymaster, and strikingly, a Southern belle who chose to stay faithful to the Union and who ran a spy ring for President Abraham Lincoln’s top general ...

Book Review: ‘Lincoln’s Peace’ offers lessons for these times from the Civil War Michael Vorenberg’s book shines as a meticulously researched and artistically written examination of how ...

In a rare pro-Democrat cartoon from the Civil War era, presidential aspirant George B. McClellan, center, is portrayed as the intermediary between Abraham Lincoln and Confederate President ...

A wax statue of Abraham Lincoln melted in a heatwave in Washington DC, part of Sandy Williams IV's Wax Monument Series highlighting Civil War history. Livemint Published 26 Jun 2024, 09:12 AM IST ...