The Lincoln Presidential Foundation is in debt, so it is putting more than 100 of its artifacts up for auction.

Press release from Alachua County. May 20th holds deep historical significance in Florida as it marks the day in 1865 when ...

While not as widely celebrated as Juneteenth — which marks June 19, 1865, as the day the last city in the "rebellious states," Galveston, Texas, was informed its enslaved population was free — ...

Consensus-building can be very difficult, even for the president of the United States. Abraham Lincoln was faced with a nation that was split on the issue of slavery. In 1863, he wrote one of the most ...

Abraham Lincoln became the first US president to suspend habeas corpus ... according to the National Constitution Center, and in 1863 Congress approved suspending it for the duration of the war when ...

Robert E. Lee, Confederate General, dared to cross the border and invade Pennsylvania, a Union state. Lee hoped to force Lincoln into negotiations to end the war. Lincoln felt ...