The white leather gloves are stained with blood from the night Abraham Lincoln wore them to the theater. Even on a ...

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

Lincoln, a clean-shaven 22-year-old with the barest of formal schooling, had set out in 1831 to haul freight down the Mississippi River to New Orleans when he snagged his flatboat on the Sangamon ...

Richard Kreitner’s deeply researched book about the Civil War era illuminates the lives of six Jewish Americans and their ...

One can respect Lincoln’s heroic struggle to preserve the Union and eradicate slavery while still realizing that he made ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

It seems as though 12-15 new books about Abraham Lincoln hit the market each year, with another dozen volumes featuring ...

The small plaque that stands in Elm Park marks a major contribution that Worcester made in the fight against chattel slavery.

It’s a comfort to remember that the virtues he embodied are fundamentally American.