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

The Battle of Gettysburg, considered to be one of the most important battles of the American Civil War, came to an end on ...

I’ve had Whitman in mind this spring as we’ve watched the Trump administration and its Department of Government Efficiency ...

Griffin reportedly plans to lend his copies of the Thirteenth Amendment and the Emancipation Proclamation to a US institution ...

Three men spent time in jail under suspicion of being involved in the murder of Presdient Lincoln 160 years ago. Two were ...

Originally issued by Lincoln during the Civil War in 1863, the proclamation declared enslaved people in the Confederate ...

Americans, on July 4th, celebrate the nation’s birthday, when the Continental Congress officially declared that the United States was no longer a British colony, but an independent country. It gained ...

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

On July 4, 1863, after 47 days of battle, Lt. General John Pemberton’s Confederate troops surrendered to General Ulysses S.

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

When Bill Hanchett died in 2016, his son found a bundle of letters and postcards to family that he had written while in the Army Air Forces during World War II. The letters tell a story of the war ...

In grade school, I lived in Springfield, Illinois. When family or friends visited, we would invariably take them to see ...