Newtown Historical Society will celebrate Presidents Day with a talk about the much loved Abraham Lincoln. “Abraham Lincoln, ...

That All Men Are Created Equal” features bills of sale, reward posters and more to explain slavery’s role in the Civil War, ...

On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the ... Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia ...

Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.

Finally, constitutionally and politically, Lincoln had to grapple with the evolving meaning of the Civil ... the war must lead to “a new birth of freedom” or it would have been fought in vain. Major ...

Sixty-four years ago, the Estes Park Trail, predecessor to the Estes Park Trail-Gazette, ran columns highlighting the ...

Observer welcomes Louis Masur who writes and lectures about a range of topics including Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, the Founding Fathers, visual culture, and the history of Rock and Roll.

When Abraham Lincoln was preparing ... “We don’t have proof” that Lincoln did the cutting and pasting, said Michelle Krowl, a Civil War historian at the Library of Congress.