Despite being president for only four years—from March 1861 to April 1865—Abraham Lincoln was incredibly influential. From leading the nation through the dark days of the Civil War to writing ...

A previously unknown and unpublished Civil War-era letter from President Abraham Lincoln has been acquired by the Raab Collection — and is being sold for $85,000. Here are details.

Abraham Lincoln is often ranked as one of the United States’s most important presidents for his role in steering the country through the Civil War and his insistence on abolishing slavery ...

Over the weekend, Donald Trump basically said that Abraham Lincoln was responsible for causing, or at least not preventing, the Civil War (“Trump says Civil War ‘could have been negotiated ...

This 2024 focus on the Civil War started when former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, whose state was the first to secede before Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration all those years ago, failed last ...

A previously unpublished letter by Abraham Lincoln that offers insight on his management of the Civil War sold Wednesday for $85,000. The letter, dated Aug. 19, 1861—during the first year of the ...

This episode originally aired on May 2, 2024. What lessons can the five months leading up to the Civil War teach us about the political landscape of today? A new book delves into that short span of ...

Although history records that the Civil War ended in 1865, Leroy believes “Lincoln won the war in 1862 … with the idea of Idaho.” He cites multiple bills he signed that year as an example.

No president has ever done so without Congress, Mr. Galston writes, citing President Abraham Lincoln’s Civil War detention of Confederate prisoners.

Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War will be the topic of the next — and next-to-last — Trumbull Town Hall lecture. Louis Masur, a professor of American Studies and History at Rutgers University ...