Lincoln led through crisis by aligning decisive action with a long horizon, turning the fight to save the Union into a moral ...

Paul Bahnmaier is president of the Lecompton Historical Society which operates the Territorial Museum and other historic ...

NPR’s Morning Edition host and author Steve Inskeep visits the ACPL to discuss his book Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded ...

After a long treatise on the illegality of secession, Lincoln closed with a single flourish. His plea to the “better angels ...

The Civil War was really the watershed,” he wrote Meyer. “Lincoln was America’s first dictator, and almost all the Republican ...

In encampments like Fort Monroe, Union forces in the Civil War were joined by thousands of African-Americans seeking liberty and protection.

Fourteen presidents have called themselves Freemasons, members of the centuries-old fraternal organization known for its secret rituals and mysterious symbols. Abraham Lincoln was not one of them, but ...

Claims that federal officials ordered the removal of a the infamous 1863 image sparked concern over the Trump administration’s efforts to eradicate what it calls “corrosive ideology,” despite the US ...

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield is unveiling a new exhibit and book this fall, highlighting Lincoln's life and legacy through a collection of 100 objects. The book, ...

All were deemed to violate Trump's executive order on "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History" in March, which ordered the Interior Department to purge national monuments and historic sites of ...

ASCENSION PARISH, La. — Three people were arrested Thursday in in connection with the theft of a silver Abraham Lincoln statue from the Houmas House and Gardens in Darrow, according to the Ascension ...