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

America has a rich history of third parties in politics. The Republican party started off as a third party and quickly became ...

Historians consistently rank Abraham Lincoln as the greatest U.S. president. Without his leadership and political brilliance, ...

“Now He Belongs to the Ages,” about President Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train. Lincoln lived in Springfield, Illinois, when he was elected to the presidency in 1860. In early 1861, he ...

The world changed in 1990 when Adobe Photoshop became public. Suddenly, people could manipulate images however they wanted to ...

"By finding these names, we are releasing them to give back these enslaved people some of their dignity," said Sarah Bader-King, executive director of the John Wornall House Museum.

THERE WERE SIX PEOPLE HERE IN 1850 AND 4 IN 1860. WE RECENTLY DISCOVERED FOUR ... Missouri was exempt from President Abraham Lincoln's 1863 Emancipation Proclamation decreeing the freedom of ...

History is full of examples of nations paying out to compensate for slavery. But the money never went to those who suffered ...

Strangely, over a century, America’s two major political parties gradually reversed identities, like the magnetic poles of Planet Earth switching direction. When the Republican Party was ...

His was, no doubt, the most accomplished presidency in the 64 years between George Washington’s and Abraham Lincoln’s. And where Washington and Lincoln had arrived at moments freighted with destiny ...

In a legal career that spanned nearly a quarter century, Abraham Lincoln accepted all types of ... to cover court costs and attorney fees. By 1860, Martin Beard had remarried and was living ...