A previously unknown and unpublished letter from President Abraham Lincoln has been recovered for the first time. The Civil War-era letter, which was part of a private collection for over a century, ...

Did you know that Abraham Lincoln hired a man from Stroudsburg to represent him in the military? The grave of that man, John ...

Abraham Lincoln pardoned President Biden's great-great-grandfather after a late-night Civil War-era brawl, documents reportedly show, linking the two presidents across the centuries. The court-martial ...

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, will ...

President Abraham Lincoln signed the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation 162 years ago this week. To celebrate, dozens of people gathered for the unveiling of a new presidential statue outside the ...

The latest in an intermittent series looking back at groundbreaking, newsmaking, appalling and amusing events in government history. In early April 1865, President Abraham Lincoln made a bold decision ...

"LINCOLN'S PEACE: THE STRUGGLE TO END THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR" by Michael Vorenberg (Alfred A. Knopf, 438 pages, $35). Abraham Lincoln wanted peace, for the war to end. He expressed his desire to "bind ...

In “Abraham Lincoln’s Unchurched Faith” (Houses of Worship, Feb. 9), Allen Guelzo draws conclusions about Lincoln’s church attitudes without noting the president’s experience at the New York Avenue ...