Black regiments led an as­sault on and eventually captured a key Southern fort helping bring the Civil War to an end. The ...

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

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 ...

The crown gem of the Lincoln collection from Connecticut's Univeristy Archives is an interpositive image of President Abraham ...

President Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery in Washington, D.C., freeing more than 3,000 people. It was a joyful day that came after decades of effort by abolitionists and amid the Civil War. In 2025, ...

Today, and every April 9 to come, should be a national holiday. A holiday to commemorate, celebrate, and sanctify the story ...

“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, ...

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

By Don Heinrich Tolzmann Special to NKyTribune Cincinnati has a monument in Washington Park in Over-the-Rhine that honors ...

For many people, the term “marshals” conjures Hollywood portrayals like Tommy Lee Jones chasing down a fugitive in the 1998 ...

Many of the new artifacts carry the weight of history, but also the freedom stories and intimate histories of the families ...