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

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 ...

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 ...

As Mr. Wolfowtiz notes, Lincoln’s “vision” and “genius” was that he understood how to heal a country that had been split in half by a horrendous civil war. His life reminds us that our ...

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 ...

The following is an edited, excerpted version of Maureen McKinney’s interview with her longtime friend Stacy Lynn, about the ...

When Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office for his second term as president, the United States was divided as never before ...

This year marks the 160th anniversary of the end of fighting between the Union and Confederate military. A display of the Civil War in 3D is on display at the Johnson-Shaw Stereoscopic Museum, 423 ...

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 ...

Armistice Day in 1930 brought a massive crowd to downtown Spokane to see the unveiling of the Abraham Lincoln statue at ... of Union soldiers from the Civil War, while some were still alive.

Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Elsewhere in the country, parts of the rebel army fought on.