Abraham Lincoln, born poor and largely self-educated, served one term in Congress and had minimal military service during the ...

A new temporary exhibit, “The United States Colored Troops,” opened last week at The Rolland Center for Lincoln Research at ...

And the work he has given us is not only a biography of Lincoln and a history of the Civil War. It is itself a battlefield, a sprawling panorama of people and issues and conflicts held together ...

On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the ... Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four more states -- Virginia ...

However, the modern Thanksgiving holiday we know was established by President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War in 1863. After the startling loss of life at the Battle of Gettysburg ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — Nearly 180,000 African American men fought for the Union in the Civil War. A new exhibit called ...

Lincoln’s election was itself evidence of the sectional discord that had ripped the United States apart during the 1850s, as slavery became a critical political ... Finally, constitutionally and ...

Megan Kate Nelson, author of “The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the ...

He kept a cool head during the American Civil War, but a heatwave proved too much for his statue. A wax effigy of President Abraham Lincoln has melted as temperatures soared over the weekend in ...

The Albert Lea Civil War Roundtable will meet on Thursday at the Freeborn County History Center at 7 p.m. Gary Schindler will ...

"They toss around lines like 'Black folks used to be Republicans or brag about 'Lincoln freeing the slaves.' Then, leaders in the party refuse to say the Civil War is about slavery." “The Grift ...