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

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

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

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

Lincoln and Juárez never met but kept close diplomatic ties for years, likely a factor in covert U.S. help against the ...

"LINCOLN'S PEACE: THE STRUGGLE TO END THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR" by Michael Vorenberg (Alfred A. Knopf, 438 pages, $35). Abraham Lincoln wanted peace, for the war to end. He expressed his desire to ...

On this day in 1865, just after the effective end of the American Civil War, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was ...

_ This April 1865 photo provided by the Library of Congress shows President Abraham Lincoln’s box at Ford’s Theater, ...

“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.

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

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