A copy of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by Lincoln -- the highlight of a fascinating catalog -- sold at a Sotheby’s ...

But I don't think it's ever left us, that for a moment, we felt like we had just kept Abraham Lincoln alive. And it was, incredibly powerful. - [Narrator] Booth fired.

Although Meyer Frank was a National Review colleague of William F. Buckley, who loathed Murray Rothbard, Frank admired ...

Charles Sumner is best known as the statesman caned within an inch of his life on the Senate floor for speaking against the expansion of slavery.  Sumner counted among his friends Ralph Waldo Emerson, ...

Twin brothers John Middleton Clayton and William Henry Harrison Clayton were born on their father’s farm near Philadelphia in October 13, 1840. Their lives were defined like many men of that ...

Roger Q. Mason’s stage play and film Lavender Men considers Abraham Lincoln's love life and interrogates American mythology.

Each winner of the 2025 Dr. Eugene and Dr. Maxine Hankins Cain Lansing Juneteenth Essay Competition and Scholarship Program ...

The Lost Peace' by Jay Winik. The most serious attempt to evade America's Civil War was probably doomed to fail, said Adam ...

Many Ukrainians have found a new start in Lincoln while keeping an eye on their homeland at time when U.S. support for the country has shifted and ceasefire talks continue.

After he was elected president in 1860, Abraham Lincoln was faced with filling patronage positions in the Washington Territory. Just eight years old, the Washington Territory needed territorial suprem ...

Leading historians aim to restore and grow respect for enslaved people and their descendants on Juneteenth, commemorating the ...

Jones's book Allan Pinkerton offers a riveting account of a largely overlooked figure whose shadow still looms over modern ...