On Nov. 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln, America’s 16th president, stood at a Pennsylvania cemetery and shared his hope for the ...

Much more than four score and seven years ago, Lincoln spoke to a crowd of listeners, reminding them of the importance of ...

On Market Street in Steubenville, history still looks back at you. The bronze figure of Edwin M. Stanton gazes across the valley he once called home. Born here in 1814, Stanton rose from the banks of ...

The 1860 presidential election, which saw Abraham Lincoln win without Southern support, intensified divisions over slavery and states' rights, leading to Southern secession and the American Civil War.

(WTAP) -On November 19, 1863, at the dedication of a military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, during the American Civil ...

The Civil War was far from over on Nov. 19, 1863, when the dedication ceremonies were held for the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg. Politicians and dignitaries had gathered in the small ...

In these difficult times, it is useful to remember the words of Abraham Lincoln, one of the most insightful and courageous individuals ever to serve as president of the United States. His second ...

One hundred sixty-three years after multiple Southern states seceded from the Union rather than accept a new president who was hostile to slavery, the origin of the Civil War is looming over another ...

When Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. furnished the Oval Office after stepping into the presidency, he included a bust and a portrait of Abraham Lincoln. The Washington Post published a report by historian ...

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Though Lincoln himself was not Jewish, his words of support drawn from the faith of history’s first Jew continue to serve as ...