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

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

On my periodic trips to Atlanta, I often stop at one of my favorite bookstores, A Capella Books near Inman Park. During my most recent visit, I picked up a ...

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

I. Abraham Lincoln is best remembered, of course, for winning the Civil War. That epic event, however, has obscured another ...

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 ...

“Lincoln’s Peace” offers a pair of fascinating what ifs. Had the Union maintained a larger and stronger post-Civil War occupying ... after the fighting stops. Abraham Lincoln wanted to ...

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

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.

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.