On April 15, 1865, the Civil War had just ended, the 16th U.S. president had been killed. How would Americans respond?

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

While disaster can strike at any time, an unusual number of tragic events seem to take place on a few inauspicious days in April. Eerie coincidence?

“The American Civil War has an official end date, and that end date is August 1866,” Vorenberg said. Notably, the official ...

US President Abraham Lincoln was shot in the head by stage actor John Wilkes Booth while attending a play at Ford’s Theatre ...

“Equal rights & Justice to all white men in the United States forever,” urges John McMahon of Hambrook, Pennsylvania, on Aug. 5, 1864. “White men is in class number one & black men in class number two ...

Those involved in unleashed political fighting today should learn from this end-of-war, Easter season moment from York history.

It seems like a new biography of President Abraham Lincoln comes out every few years, trying to discern new perspectives of ...

Jeff Kluever, former Allen County Historical Society director and avid Civil War historian, will be in Iola April 26 to talk ...

A pair of blood-stained white kid-leather gloves carried by the president during the night of his assassination on April 14, ...