It’s a comfort to remember that the virtues he embodied are fundamentally American.

The small plaque that stands in Elm Park marks a major contribution that Worcester made in the fight against chattel slavery.

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

Actor Alec Baldwin took to Instagram on Tuesday night to inform his followers that he believes America is in a 'pre-Civil War ...

“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.

On April 15, 1865, the Civil War had just ended, the 16th U.S. president had been killed. How would Americans respond?

Richard Kreitner’s deeply researched book about the Civil War era illuminates the lives of six Jewish Americans and their ...

Unpacking the logic of from's National Garden of American Heroes honoring figures from Christopher Columbus to Whitney ...

WINDOM — The Sons of Norway Stavanger Lodge 1-538 will host its next meeting at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, April 26, at the Cottonwood County Historical Society, 812 Fourth Ave., Windom.

When Abraham Lincoln sent out a call to arms, Falmouth men bravely responded. Most of these veterans are buried in Oak Grove Cemetery. The public is invited to come hear ...

The white-leather gloves are stained with blood from the night the slain president wore them to the theater.