In “Born Equal,” Akhil Reed Amar paints a sprawling portrait of 19th-century America in thrall to its founding moment.

In August, history professor Michael Birkner gave a short speech in Evergreen Cemetery in Gettysburg, near where President ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Abraham Lincoln Civil War Roundtable of Michigan has hosted 1 event in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 2024 Speech. Jack Dempsey, former President of the ...

A new statue of President Abraham Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation was just installed outside the African ...

A statue of Abraham Lincoln depicting him signing the Emancipation Proclamation was installed outside of the African American ...

Crittenden was born in Versailles, but would hold a variety of political offices in Kentucky and on a national level.

In correspondence with a passionate abolitionist in London, the great American orator didn't hold back when talking about the ...

Edward Dexter Holbrook stood outside his Idaho City law office on Main and Wall Streets as he came face-to-face with Charles ...

Bullet to the brain, from one farm boy to another. When John Wilkes Booth fired a .44 lead ball into Abraham Lincoln’s head, the murder shook a nation to its core and led to 13 days of bedlam rivaling ...

With his social media meme, Donald Trump crowed about declaring war on the largest city in the state of Illinois, otherwise ...

All were deemed to violate Trump's executive order on "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History" in March, which ...