President Donald Trump suggested that he could have handled the Civil War better than then-President Abraham Lincoln in a ...

Lincoln largely fought the Civil War over this principle, establishing a role for government in securing and guaranteeing economic opportunity for its citizens, a guarantee that has remained at ...

Whether you're looking for a heavy dive into our nation's history, or simply a romp that takes place on Fourth of July ...

Every July Fourth brings fireworks, picnics, parades and happy celebrations of American freedom. But behind the festivities ...

You’re weighing the totality of consequences — the 750,000 deaths, the bitterness that metastasized into Jim Crow, the Confederacy's martyr mythos that still haunts us — against the possibility of a ...

A controversial flag which some say cost them their jobs is ready to go on display at a Springfield museum. Here's what you ...

This is the fifth in a series of articles about Marshalltown street names. Today’s article identifies the five city streets ...

The hedge fund founder paid $13.7 million for a copy of the 13th Amendment and $4.4 million for the Emancipation Proclamation ...

He volunteered to serve the Union in the Civil War, and was an active part of a Marshall veteran’s group. But for more than ...

Originally issued by Lincoln during the Civil War in 1863, the proclamation declared enslaved people in the Confederate ...

"Wildflowers of New England," with images by Edwin Hale Lincoln, and a smaller show of work by Lindsey Beal and May Babcock ...

Three men spent time in jail under suspicion of being involved in the murder of Presdient Lincoln 160 years ago. Two were ...