The complexities of leadership often manifest most vividly during times of crisis, where the decisions of a leader can reverberate through history. Abraham Lincoln, during the tumultuous years of the ...

Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War will be the topic of the next — and next-to-last — Trumbull Town Hall lecture. Louis Masur, a professor of American Studies and History at Rutgers University, will ...

“Lincoln’s Peace” offers a pair of fascinating what ifs. Had the Union maintained a larger and stronger post-Civil War occupying army, could it have banished all the residual slavery practices and ...

Whether you’re a Civil War buff or get all your learnin’ from Drunk History, HistoryMiami keeps churning out lively events that tempt locals to dive into the past. For the 150th anniversary of Abraham ...

At the height of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln, at the urging of a magazine editor, proclaimed a national ...

Editorial: Lincoln offers a model of how we, in the midst of seemingly never-ending conflicts, can celebrate Thanksgiving.

Out of guilt or amnesia, we tend to treat wars, in retrospect, as natural disasters: terrible but somehow inevitable, beyond anyone’s control. Shaking your fist at the fools who started the First ...

Part 1 explores the decades of political fights, economic clashes, and national tension that pushed America toward civil war.

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – The Lincoln Society of Dayton will be hosting a “Linking the Civil War to the American Revolution” program this Sunday. The free program will be at the Woodbourne Library, at ...