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

The tiny central Illinois village, where Lincoln accidentally spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, perhaps did as much to prepare him to be the Union-saving 16th president as any other aspect of his ...

On May 30, Abraham Lincoln ... Smalls’ first meeting with Lincoln, he urged the president to allow Black men to join the Union Army. Since the beginning of the Civil War, Lincoln had rejected ...

Looking at a picture of Abraham Lincoln in October 1860 ... and all the horrors of the Civil War—the figure who fought to end slavery and who, in the stirring Old Testament strains of his ...

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

On April 15, 1865, the Civil War had just ended, the 16th U.S. president had been killed. How would Americans respond?

Armistice Day in 1930 brought a massive crowd to downtown Spokane to see the unveiling of the Abraham Lincoln statue at Main ...

When President Abraham Lincoln described the origin of the United States as founded “on the proposition that all men are created equal,” he wasn’t just delivering a Civil War pep ...

“Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War” By Michael Vorenberg ... in planning what to do after the fighting stops. Abraham Lincoln wanted to “let them (the defeated ...

The Statehouse Museum Shop, on the ground floor of the Ohio Statehouse, offers copies of Lincoln’s Gettysburg and Second Inaugural Addresses, small statues of President Lincoln and Lincoln’s hat and a ...

The two greatest presidents died in April, 80 years apart, one 80 years ago. Abraham Lincoln, 56, was slain while enjoying a comedy ...

Patrons of the annual Lincoln Days Civil War Reenactment will commemorate those historic events in a slightly different fashion this year. The Pike County chapter of the Looking for Lincoln ...