“The American Civil War has an official end date, and that end date is August 1866,” Vorenberg said. Notably, the official ...

"Lincoln’s Peace" examines the difficulty in turning wartime victory into solving the political and social problems that led to fighting in the first place.

On my periodic trips to Atlanta, I often stop at one of my favorite bookstores, A Capella Books near Inman Park. During my ...

“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.

A pair of blood-stained white kid-leather gloves carried by the president during the night of his assassination on April 14, ...

Readers of newspapers across America 160 years ago this week would have seen two similar headlines on the front page of their paper trumpeting the end of the Civil War: “Victory, Victory” and “The ...

The idea of Dr. Etcheson’s book being turned into a documentary film was brought to Gudaitis Production in 2019 when Jim ...

The president’s iconic beard was a product of the anxious new realities of the photographic age.

Armistice Day in 1930 brought a massive crowd to downtown Spokane to see the unveiling of the Abraham Lincoln statue at ... of Union soldiers from the Civil War, while some were still alive.

In the summer of 1859, a year before his election to the U.S. presidency, Abraham Lincoln received a curious letter in the ...

Abraham Lincoln wanted peace ... "Lincoln's Peace," an important addition to the multitude of books about the Civil War, begins with what most people believe to be the end of the war.