If the Confederate States of America (CSA) had succeeded in winning, or negotiating, its independence from the United States ...

The story of the damaged tree from Lincoln's time drew national attention, including an article in the New York Times. Now, the tree has been removed.

Despite being president for only four years—from March 1861 to April 1865—Abraham Lincoln was incredibly influential. He led the nation through the dark days of the Civil War, wrote and delivered the ...

Mathew Brady Studio, "Abraham Lincoln," 1861 (printed 1982). Modern albumen print from wet plate collodion negative. (Mathew Brady Studio/National Portrait Gallery) Review by Angelica Hankins In ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With an eye toward America’s 250 th birthday in 2026, Bristol will dedicate the spot where Abraham Lincoln delivered brief remarks ...

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 reconciliation was "more substantial than most subsequent ...

There is always a certain peril in a prequel—especially a long-delayed one. Think James Fenimore Cooper, who published “The Deerslayer” 15 years after “The Last of the Mohicans” (1826), only to have ...

1861: The Lost Peace. By Jay Winik. Grand Central Publishing. 304 pages. $35. More than two decades have passed since historian Jay Winik wrote about the end of the Civil War with a book with “April ...

Abraham Lincoln spent his birthday in Cincinnati on Feb. 12, 1861, on his way from Springfield, Illinois, to the nation’s capital for his inauguration. The president-elect didn’t know what kind of ...

(WHTM) — The Civil War was supposed to be over in ninety days. People on both the Union and Confederate sides thought that the war would be decided in just a single battle. In fact, many troop ...