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

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

Seward had been stabbed in the face and neck with a Bowie knife by another conspirator, Lewis Powell. In a near miraculous ...

A pair of gloves carried by President Lincoln on the night he was shot could sell for over $1 million. Read about the Chicago ...

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

Readers of newspapers across America 160 years ago this week would have seen two similar headlines on the front page of their paper trumpeting the end of the Civil War: “Victory, Victory” and “The ...

Armistice Day in 1930 brought a massive crowd to downtown Spokane to see the unveiling of the Abraham Lincoln statue at Main ...

Hosted by Williams Collection of Lincolniana archivist Kaelynn Edmondson and Susannah J. Ural, the Frank and Virginia ...

A look at what happened April 7-12, 1861, before the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. The shots fired ...

In 2025, D.C. is celebrating 20 years of officially observing the holiday. A parade, festival, concert and fireworks will ...