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 ...

It’s a comfort to remember that the virtues he embodied are fundamentally American.

electing Jefferson Davis as its president. On April 12, 1861, barely a month after Lincoln took office, Confederate forces fired on Union troops at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, and the Civil War ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

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 consistently ...

During Smalls’ first meeting with Lincoln, he urged the president to allow Black men to join the Union Army. Since the beginning of the Civil War, Lincoln had rejected Black volunteers ...

Without dwelling on it, “Lincoln’s Peace” mentions multiple times another failure during the Civil War that reverberates today: Newspapers during the Civil War often presented starkly ...

That leaves our Green Gallery which holds “Now He Belongs to the Ages: The Lincoln Portrait, Matthew Brady, Benjamin Loring, Tioga County and the Civil War.” This is the exhibit that I have ...

Lincoln became the Civil War’s final casualty when an actor and Southern sympathizer ... a snub to the Union Army officers and the president who prevailed over Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee. (The ...