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

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Actor Alec Baldwin took to Instagram on Tuesday night to inform his followers that he believes America is in a 'pre-Civil War ...

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"Lincoln’s Peace" examines the difficulty in turning wartime victory into solving the political and social problems that led ...

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 ...

Abraham Lincoln wanted peace, for the war to end. He expressed his desire to "bind up the nation's wounds" in his second inaugural address on March 4, 1865.

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Lincoln’s Peace” offers a pair of fascinating what ifs. Had the Union maintained a larger and stronger post-Civil War ...

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