The Civil War helped define America and names like Gettysburg, Antietam, Lincoln, Robert E Lee, and Ulysses S Grant are ...

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 ...

Ever wondered about U.S. President Abraham Lincoln's connections to Oregon and the Western United States? The Mission Theater's next History Talk will address just that. "Abraham Lincoln and the ...

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President Abraham Lincoln issued his famous “Proclamation of Thanksgiving” on Oct. 3, 1863, with the Civil War still raging.

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 ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill.SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The document in which Abraham Lincoln set in motion the Union’s military response to the launch of the U.S. Civil War is now among Illinois’ prized papers of the ...

This Memorial Day, historical collectors have the opportunity to snag a rare Civil War item: a document believed to be the only one with the signatures of President Abraham Lincoln and his fellow ...

A previously unpublished letter by Abraham Lincoln that offers insight on his management of the Civil War sold Wednesday for $85,000. The letter, dated Aug. 19, 1861—during the first year of the Civil ...

These days, a noisy faction insists on the ardent Christianity of America's past leaders, as well as the supposed obvious compatibility of devout faith and unfettered capitalism. This faction, I'm ...

Abraham Lincoln pardoned President Biden's great-great-grandfather after a late-night Civil War-era brawl, documents reportedly show, linking the two presidents across the centuries. The court-martial ...

The political neutrality of news media has recently been called into question, but as far back as the Civil War, opponents have understood the importance of controlling the narrative in the press — ...