Abraham Lincoln is best known for his role as a wartime president, but his economic policies were a precursor to the New Deal ...

Abraham Lincoln said goodbye to his friend for the last time as they left the meeting that afternoon. It was Friday, April 14 ...

This lesson compares the experiences, roles, and legacies of Mary Todd Lincoln and Varina Davis, the wives of the Civil War era presidents. The lesson, which features historian Kelly Hancock speaking ...

In his second inaugural address, delivered as the Civil War neared its end, Abraham Lincoln turned not to politics but to theology. “Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God ...

Facing the crisis of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln drew on religious feeling to help galvanize the North—and to bolster his ...

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 ...

Watch a video of the creative team behind 3 Summer of Lincoln discuss the process behind adding music to Abraham Lincoln's ...

More on the unsuccessful plot to kill Lincoln: http://j.mp/VnSZ9g During his inauguration tour in 1861, the president's life was threatened in the city of Baltimore ...

Glenn LeBoeuf will discuss “The Rise of Abraham Lincoln” at the next meeting of the Col. Henry Ryerson Civil War Round Table.

Mounted cavalry troops lined the streets from the president-elect’s hotel to the Capitol, and sharpshooters stood on rooftops ...

The bold stage show '3 Summers of Lincoln' — starring Ivan Hernandez, Quentin Earl Darrington, Carmen Cusack and Saycon ...

What has become of our country? Are we, as Abraham Lincoln warned before the Civil War, "a house divided?" Why have we become so divided? We are dividing our country ...