American women would not be welcome as full-time military members until 1948, but those who really, really wanted to fight ...

"He came up with a startled look on his face and said, 'Joe, I really think we've got something special here.'" In 2024, a ...

February 12, 2025, marks an extraordinary day in the annals of history, as it commemorates significant events that have ...

Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.

Sixty-four years ago, the Estes Park Trail, predecessor to the Estes Park Trail-Gazette, ran columns highlighting the ...

Observer welcomes Louis Masur who writes and lectures about a range of topics including Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, the Founding Fathers, visual culture, and the history of Rock and Roll.

President Lincoln, regarded by historians as one of the best presidents in history, was born on this day in 1809. He is frequently invoked by Trump.

A 1915 movie about the life of Abraham Lincoln, previously thought lost forever, was found on Long Island. “The Heart of ...

That All Men Are Created Equal” features bills of sale, reward posters and more to explain slavery’s role in the Civil War, ...

In the new documentary Lover of Men: The Untold Story of Abraham Lincoln ... Later in his life, Lincoln had another close relationship with an army officer in the Civil War named Elmer Ellsworth.

Approximately 90 African Americans have been identified as serving in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. Unlike the American ...