Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones will speak at 6:30 p.m. June 17 at Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum as part of a Juneteenth collaboration among the museum, ...

The simple narrative today of the southern secession in 1860 and 1861 is that the southern states believed that the ...

"What happened in Bloomington 169 years ago ... ignited Lincoln's march to the presidency and eventually led to emancipation, ...

Abraham Lincoln spent his birthday in Cincinnati on Feb. 12, 1861, on his way from Springfield, Illinois, to the nation’s capital for his inauguration. The president-elect didn’t know what ...

he suggested Abraham Lincoln could have avoided the Civil War by cutting a deal with the South—which, as a reminder, wanted slavery to remain legal. Asked by a 10-year-old who his favorite ...

Debates over Abraham ... influence on his political ambitions. When Lincoln visited Speed’s family home in Kentucky, he wrote later about how witnessing the brutal reality of slavery up close ...

A conversation with Harvard Business School professor and historian Nancy Koehn on the power of Lincoln’s emotional discipline. In 1863, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln wrote a scathing letter ...

In Ottawa, the site of his first debate with Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln made the ... whose 1837 lynching at the hands of a pro-slavery mob Lincoln had condemned before the Springfield ...

Guelzo set out to inquire into Abraham Lincoln ... organizes his book around Lincoln’s views on intertwined themes: liberty, law, economics, race, slavery, emancipation. A prolific Lincoln ...

America’s history of slavery shouldn’t be a source ... Never Given,” a computer-generated Abraham Lincoln gives an AI-generated address about his hypothetical regrets for not closing the ...

it is fitting to reflect on some of his most inspirational quotes ahead of his birth anniversary this Monday. Abraham Lincoln's birthday: Inspirational quotes by the leader (Photo by Twitter ...