A Kentucky farmer stumbled on one of the biggest troves of Civil War gold coins ever found, fuelling the dreams of treasure ...

Depending on the year, mint and condition, a Lincoln Wheat penny can be valued from several hundred to millions of dollars.

In “1861: The Lost Peace” (Grand Central), Jay Winik—the author of several fine works about American history—takes up that question of whether the Civil War might have been avoided.

That night, President Abraham Lincoln and First ... position in the form of secession and war, the Lincoln administration waged the Civil War in 1861-1862 as a struggle to return to the status ...

LAKE CITY — A bronze tablet mounted on red granite will commemorate Abraham Lincoln's 1861 visit to Lake City ... and at the same time the Civil War was starting to unfold.

Abraham Lincoln spent his birthday in Cincinnati on Feb. 12, 1861, on his way from Springfield ... Lincoln during Civil War Trying to keep Kentucky in the Union Lincoln spoke from the balcony ...

In any contest that pitted one against the other, few would have chosen Lincoln. Focusing on the first two years of the Civil War ... 1861. Their differences, of course, dwarf the similarities ...

Former President Donald Trump named Ronald Reagan his favorite president when he was “little” and dinged Abraham Lincoln’s handling of the Civil War. Appearing on set on Friday’s Fox ...

Lincoln didn’t coin the phrase ... speech was perhaps the last hope of averting civil war. By the time he took the oath of office on March 4, 1861, seven states that permitted human bondage ...

Besides, we were more partial to a local hero, Abraham Lincoln, than any frilly “Founding ... a nation about to tip into a blue-and-gray Civil War, “If ‘discontented individuals’ attacked ...

The Abraham Lincoln ... starting the Civil War. Following much debate among his cabinet members, President Abraham Lincoln signed the document on April 19, 1861, to blockade the southern states ...