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 ...

These experiences shaped Lincoln’s world view and resemble values that are ... Slavery was the issue that propelled the ...

Since the beginning of the Civil War, Lincoln had rejected Black volunteers ... compelling and almost immediately adopted their view. On March 13, he sent a letter to Louisiana’s governor ...

Finally, constitutionally and politically, Lincoln had to grapple with the evolving meaning of the Civil War. Initially, Lincoln espoused only ... and Lincoln has not lacked for idolaters who view him ...

Of all wars, none are quite so catastrophic as civil wars. They arise from the ugliest of disagreements, they spill into the most reprehensible of behaviors, and they seem never to have a distinct ...

On April 15, 1865, the Civil War had just ended, the 16th U.S. president had been killed. How would Americans respond?

"Lincoln’s Peace" examines the difficulty in turning wartime victory into solving the political and social problems that led to fighting in the first place.

The two commanders sat across from each other; Lee in a tall caned armchair and Grant in a swivel chair with a padded leather back next to a small oval side table. They made some small talk before ...

In the past 23 years, the project has hosted several events related to Lincoln's life and legacy, including — since 2021 — the Lincoln Days Civil War Reenactment. The event happens each June at ...

Armistice Day in 1930 brought a massive crowd to downtown Spokane to see the unveiling of the Abraham Lincoln statue at Main ...

The American Civil War is no exception, since there was no convenient peace treaty to lend it a conventional closing date. And how could there have been, since the Lincoln administration ...

“Lincoln’s Peace” offers a pair of fascinating what ifs. Had the Union maintained a larger and stronger post-Civil War occupying army, could it have banished all the residual slavery ...