A previously unknown and unpublished Civil War-era letter from President Abraham Lincoln has been acquired by the Raab Collection — and is being sold for $85,000. Here are details.

Focusing on the first two years of the Civil War in “Lincoln vs. Davis: The War of the Presidents,” Nigel Hamilton alternates between the two men in assessing their actions as commanders in chief.

Although history records that the Civil War ended in 1865, Leroy believes “Lincoln won the war in 1862 … with the idea of Idaho.” He cites multiple bills he signed that year as an example.

Facebook X Reddit Email Save. President Donald Trump suggested that he could have handled the Civil War better than then-President Abraham Lincoln in a meeting with reporters at The White House on ...

Book Review: ‘Lincoln’s Peace’ offers lessons for these times from the Civil War Michael Vorenberg’s book shines as a meticulously researched and artistically written examination of how ...

“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 ...

This episode originally aired on May 2, 2024. What lessons can the five months leading up to the Civil War teach us about the political landscape of today? A new book delves into that short span of ...

Adam Gopnik reviews “Lincoln’s Peace: The Struggle to End the American Civil War,” by Michael Vorenberg, and “1861: The Lost Peace,” by Jay Winik.

Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War will be the topic of the next — and next-to-last — Trumbull Town Hall lecture. Louis Masur, a professor of American Studies and History at Rutgers University ...

The third anniversary of the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial Shrine’s reproduction Civil War-era cannon will be celebrated with an artillery demonstration 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 17.

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 ...