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 ...

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

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

The film discusses the historical context leading to the American Civil War, focusing on the sectional tensions between free ...

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

Just weeks before Charleston fell 160 years ago today, Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery. And now, in the very city that had championed the cause of bondage, formerly ...

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 ...

The third Monday in February is Presidents Day in the United States. Originally meant to celebrate George Washington, the ...