The white-leather gloves are stained with blood from the night the slain president wore them to the theater.

Richard Kreitner’s deeply researched book about the Civil War era illuminates the lives of six Jewish Americans and their ...

One can respect Lincoln’s heroic struggle to preserve the Union and eradicate slavery while still realizing that he made ...

This marks the 160th anniversary of Union soldiers marching to destroy Raleigh as punishment for Lincoln’s assassination, ...

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

Tomorrow will be the 250th anniversary of the “ shot heard ‘round the world ” that began the American Revolution. Next year, ...

President Abraham Lin­coln signs a bill ending slavery in Washington, D.C. Approximately nine months later he would issue the ...

DC was only part of the U.S. to pay off slave owners for freeing enslaves persons they held.

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

It marks that day President Abraham Lincoln ended slavery in the District.

Biden on Tuesday gave his first public address since leaving office to a gathering of disability advocates here and warned ...