Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

It’s a comfort to remember that the virtues he embodied are fundamentally American.

Although history records that the Civil War ended in 1865, Leroy believes “Lincoln won the war in 1862 … with the idea of Idaho.” He cites multiple bills he signed that year as an example.

On Saturday, May 10 from 6-8 p.m. there will be an event to celebrate the grand reopening of the Tioga County Historical ...

Finally, constitutionally and politically, Lincoln had to grapple with the evolving meaning of the Civil War. Initially, Lincoln espoused only the cause of Unionism. But as the war continued, he saw ...

Lincoln's statement ... Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee ...

On April 12, 1861, barely a month after Lincoln took office, Confederate forces fired on Union troops at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, and the Civil War began. Lincoln acted swiftly, wielding more ...

During 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 Black volunteers ...

Watchmaker Jonathan Dillon was repairing Lincoln's watch in April 1861 when ... as he heard the news about the first shots of the Civil War, he unscrewed the dial of the watch and wrote on the ...

Author and professor Michael Vorenberg joins Morning Joe to discuss his new book 'Lincoln's Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War'.March 21, 2025 ...

“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 ...