The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...

The year: 1861. The problem: Pro-slavery states had broken away from the Union, rising up in armed revolt as the treasonous ...

America’s political parties weren’t supposed to wield the power they have today. In fact, George Washington warned us about ...

The Civil War was an extremely divisive time in American history that split the North and South into the Union and the ...

Many of us remember the beginning of Lincoln’s famous Gettysburg Address opening with a number, which we had to learn the meaning of, as it wasn’t expressed in the manner we were accustomed to hearing ...

Author and professor Michael Vorenberg joins Morning Joe to discuss his new book 'Lincoln's Peace: The Struggle to End the ...

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

EDDA L. FIELDS-BLACK is the proud daughter of Eddie Fields, esq., and icon Dorothy Jenkins Fields, founder of the Black Archives Historic Lyric Theater. PHOTO ...

The Clinton County History Center welcomed an enthusiastic crowd to its 2025 Open House and Annual Meeting on Saturday, March ...

Preservation work has begun on a Frederick County farmhouse that predates the Civil War and sits on land where an influential ...

The Feb. 16, 1861, visit was while Lincoln was enroute to his first inauguration and while the nation was on the brink of ...

Eight score and two years ago, President Abraham Lincoln signed the False Claims Act into federal law. The anti-fraud tool, enacted March 2, 1863, became known as Lincoln’s Law. Our 16th president ...