Lincoln led through crisis by aligning decisive action with a long horizon, turning the fight to save the Union into a moral campaign that advanced freedom and set the nation on a path toward equality ...

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One hundred sixty-three years after multiple Southern states seceded from the Union rather than accept a new president who was hostile to slavery, the origin of the Civil War is looming over another ...

Susannah Ural, the Frank and Virginia Williams Chair for Abraham Lincoln and Civil War Studies, will host the 2024 Williams Lecture and speak with two of the nation's leading Civil War historians ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The document in which Abraham Lincoln set in motion the Union's military response to the launch of the U.S. Civil War is now among Illinois' prized papers of the 16th ...

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A previously unpublished letter by Abraham Lincoln that offers insight on his management of the Civil War sold Wednesday for $85,000. The letter, dated Aug. 19, 1861—during the first year of the Civil ...

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 ...