Norman Hapgood, son of Alton's Hapgood Plow Factory founder, featured Lincoln's rare portrait and autobiography in his 1899 ...

Benjamin Quarles, a celebrated historian at Morgan State University, faced an uphill battle to chronicle the Black experience ...

Their decision is expected over the next couple of weeks, before the end of the month.

America’s first IRS commissioner helped raise the vast sums needed to wage the Civil War and was a strong advocate of racial equality.

It’s a question that has plagued historians and journalists for decades. Now, the perpetual debate has reared its head once ...

For instance, Abraham Lincoln learned from a man, Edwin Stanton, who treated him poorly; that's harder to imagine today, ...

Ankrom's interest in Abraham Lincoln led him to a 10-year study of Stephen Douglas. The results have been two award-winning ...

I was amazed how a discussion of the simple coffee and “meet-ups” strikes such a chord today and does so across multiple areas of study.

History is a bad place, often. To get an idea just how bad, let’s return to Reagan’s biography. Those of more tender ...

Some of today's most influential figures in politics won power the way McCarthy did: willingness to say things that capture ...

Works by Black artists on how labor influenced Black history and culture, curated by Faith Evans; reception 3-5 p.m. Feb. 16; ...