Building on his earlier classic work, Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America, Carwardine observes that the Whigs, ...

New books discuss the enslavement of others and its legacy of continuing generational damage, challenging what it means to be ...

The new musical explores the complex friendship between the president and the famed abolitionist. We spoke with co-lyricist ...

Two supplemental volumes of "The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln" are being made available online by the Abraham Lincoln ...

The film explores the life of Abraham Lincoln, highlighting his humble beginnings as a poor farm boy in Kentucky, his limited ...

With Abraham Lincoln’s 216th birthday Feb. 12 and Presidents’ Day Feb. 17, the lives of previous U.S. presidents can provide ...

A piece of American history, “The Heart of Lincoln,” has been recovered and preserved indefinitely in Long Island. NBC states ...

Thomas Jefferson claimed he came up with a plan for the emancipation of enslaved Black Americans 100 years before the Civil ...

On their birthdays on two separate days in February, this country used to celebrate the two men who are considered our ...

He helped the Union Army win the Civil War, he ended slavery, and he accomplished so many other significant things. Some of ...

A cigar maker and a successful boxer in the 1800s, André Cailloux also was the first Black officer killed in action during ...

Johnson will be performing his one-act, one-man play “The Night Before Gettysburg” at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 20, at the ...