In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

Contemporary health providers stand-in as Civil War surgeons during a re-enactment at the Spangler Barn in Gettysburg, Pa., ...

Kori Rumore, a journalist at The Chicago Tribune, joins John Landecker to talk about Abraham Lincoln’s angry letter directed ...

We Americans believe we so fully understand Abraham Lincoln’s contribution to our ... This was the moral imperative that made him willing to fight the Civil War. Lincoln was one of the ...

Originally issued by Lincoln during the Civil War in 1863, the proclamation declared enslaved people in the Confederate ...

Reservations are being taken at 217-235-5661 for the Coles County Historical Society’s July 21 Founder’s Day Dinner, which will feature a presentation on Mary Todd Lincoln.

Harrison resident Eric Schmitt was well aware of his family’s unique lineage growing up. The 55-year-old is a descendent of ...

Ken Griffin bought an Abraham Lincoln–signed copy of the 13th Amendment, for $13.7 million, and the Emancipation Proclamation ...

You’re weighing the totality of consequences — the 750,000 deaths, the bitterness that metastasized into Jim Crow, the Confederacy's martyr mythos that still haunts us — against the possibility of a ...

to Abraham Lincoln’s most infamous night at the theater. Except, as the film unfolds and what we watch is a surreal reworking of Lincoln’s love affair with young Elmer Ellsworth (who died of a single ...

Americans, on July 4th, celebrate the nation’s birthday, when the Continental Congress officially declared that the United States was no longer a British colony, but an independent country. It gained ...

On a sunny but crisp afternoon this spring, more visitors than you might think trekked on a weekday to Ball’s Bluff ...