A rare Lincoln letter at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum shows how race shaped early White House life and presidential power.

An 1861 job-reference letter from Abraham Lincoln on behalf of a young Black friend and valet provides a glimpse of an ...

In 1860, Republican Abraham Lincoln was elected 16th president of the United States. In 1861, Jefferson Davis was elected ...

Imagine a federal initiative that builds a nationwide system of universities and colleges equipped to educate and train every ...

Have you managed to meet your reading goals for 2025? If you are struggling like me or have have read these or any of these ...

President Abraham Lincoln, attended a few of them. Mary Todd told her half-sister that Willie would appear at the foot of her bed “with the same sweet, adorable smile that he always has had,” ...

We know a lot about Abraham Lincoln: he was born to illiterate parents in a Kentucky log cabin, he executed the Emancipation Declaration in 1863, and, in presidential terms, he was enormously tall. We ...

In August, history professor Michael Birkner gave a short speech in Evergreen Cemetery in Gettysburg, near where President Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous address in November 1863. The event was ...

This 64-pound solid silver statue was stolen from the Houmas House Estate in Darrow, Louisiana, had been cut up to be sold to pawn shops, officials say. Houmas House Estate & Gardens Facebook ...

“Loving Lincoln” encompasses the women he befriended, defended in divorce actions, those who wrote to seek pardons and government offices for their husbands, writers like Ida Tarbell, Ruth Painter ...

In our era, they might seem like performative gestures for the president. A quiet visit with the wife of a wounded soldier. A conversation with a battlefield nurse or a kitchen worker. A hand extended ...