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 ...

Monday marks Abraham Lincoln’s 215th birthday, and as always, it prompts some of the most profound questions of civics and citizenship: Do I get the day off from work? Do my kids have to go to school?

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Actors John Floyd and Kaiyla Gross read letters written from Hannibal Cox and Annie Davis to President Abraham Lincoln. This event took place onstage ...

CNN’s Scott Jennings attempted the unenviable task of translating what he thought former President Donald Trump meant earlier in the day when he suggested Abraham Lincoln could have “settled” the ...

During the American Civil War, military bands, such as the 46th Pennsylvania Regiment, were renowned for inspiring patriotism ...

“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 ...

From 1861 to 1865, the United States was ripped in two by war – with the Union in the North and the seceded states, the Confederacy, in the South. These four years witnessed unprecedented bloodshed, ...

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WILMINGTON, N.C. -- One of the most important African American leaders of the late 1800s was born in North Carolina, but his accomplishments and influence vanished from history for 100 years. Abraham ...