Erie County native Strong Vincent's heroism on July 2, 1863, at the Battle of Gettysburg is not where he first distinguished himself as a commander.

A controversial flag which some say cost them their jobs is ready to go on display at a Springfield museum. Here's what you ...

Lot 62 is a sepia-colored carte de visite of Lincoln, boldly signed by him as “A. Lincoln” and PSA/DNA slabbed and graded ...

The Stuart family tells a story that during the raid of Union troops on Saltville, Virginia, in December 1864, a soldier of ...

The Lost Peace' by Jay Winik. The most serious attempt to evade America's Civil War was probably doomed to fail, said Adam ...

As a Massachusetts senator during the years leading up to the Civil War, Sumner was a passionate and committed abolitionist.

This year brings the 160th anniversary of June 19, 1865, a major turning point in the fight to end slavery in the U.S.

Facebook X Reddit Email President Donald Trump suggested that he could have handled the Civil War better than then-President Abraham Lincoln in a meeting with reporters at The White House on ...

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.

On Tuesday, Gov. J.B. Pritzker and his wife, M.K., donated that historic document to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield. The couple acquired it at auction for $471,000.

Pritzkers donate Lincoln's Civil War order to blockade Southern ports to state museum The fateful 163-year-old document had been in an anonymous private collection until its purchase at auction by ...