The African American Civil War Memorial Museum (AACWM) held its annual Reading of the Names on Nov. 11, honoring more than 200,000 United States Colored Troops. While the event marked a major moment ...

On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered a powerful 272-word speech, later known as the Gettysburg Address, dedicating a new cemetery on the site of the bloody Civil War battlefield.

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 ...

A rare Lincoln letter at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum shows how race shaped early White House life and presidential power.

In the span of 16 years in the back half of the 19th century, Americans watched as two of their presidents were struck down ...

In the next 56 minutes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar of the Civil War, slavery, and of Frederick Douglas, offered a ...

An 1861 job-reference letter from Abraham Lincoln on behalf of a young Black friend and valet provides a glimpse of an ...

Dan Shannon of Anderson Township has created a national contest to find the best poem about America. Poet Thomas Buchanan Read wrote the famous Civil War poem “Sheridan’s Ride” in Cincinnati, first ...

President Abraham Lincoln signed the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation 162 years ago this week. To celebrate, dozens of people gathered for the unveiling of a new presidential statue outside the ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Noted Civil War experts Brandi C. Brimmer and Judith Giesberg are leading a discussion on the 16th president and the amendment abolishing slavery during the eighth annual Frank and ...

In his more grandiose moments, Donald Trump likes to proclaim himself the greatest president in U.S. history. Greater even than Abraham Lincoln. Just recently, Trump raised the stakes in his historic ...

Be there as Union soldiers drill ahead of battle, or when Gen. Robert E. Lee and Gen. Ulysses S. Grant discuss the terms of surrender, or when President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg ...