When Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office for his second term as president, the United States was divided as never before or since. The Civil War had killed over 600,000 Americans, North and South.

Juneteenth (also referred to as “Freedom Day”) celebrations vary by community. In Seattle, there are a number of ways to ...

The place where Abraham Lincoln passed through Bristol Borough while traveling along a now-removed rail line is easy to miss. That’s about to change in a big way. A unique ...

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

Joshua Claybourn, an attorney with Jackson Kelly PLLC in Evansville, said that growing up just a few miles away from where Abraham Lincoln spent a good majority of his childhood, it was easy to become ...

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

It seems as though 12-15 new books about Abraham Lincoln hit the market each year, with another dozen volumes featuring ...

It seems as if Tammany Hall, the most well-known example of a “political machine,” has faded into the void at the center of ...

“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.

The review of the Third, Fifth and Sixth Army Corps, by President LINCOLN, took place to-day. The weather was favorable, and the affair passed off with much 'c clat and enthusiasm. At an early ...

Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives ...

Lincoln National is selling a 9.9% stake to Bain Capital for $825 million as part of an investment-management partnership with the private investment firm. Lincoln on Wednesday said it will sell ...