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.

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 ...

"Lincoln’s Peace" examines the difficulty in turning wartime victory into solving the political and social problems that led to fighting in the first place.

"LINCOLN'S PEACE: THE STRUGGLE TO END THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR" by Michael Vorenberg (Alfred A. Knopf, 438 pages, $35). Abraham Lincoln wanted peace, for the war to end. He expressed his desire to ...

The American Civil War is no exception, since there was no convenient peace treaty to lend it a conventional closing date. And how could there have been, since the Lincoln administration ...

The Statehouse Museum Shop, on the ground floor of the Ohio Statehouse, offers copies of Lincoln’s Gettysburg and Second Inaugural Addresses, small statues of President Lincoln and Lincoln’s hat and a ...

Armistice Day in 1930 brought a massive crowd to downtown Spokane to see the unveiling of the Abraham Lincoln statue at Main ...

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 ...

“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 ...