Smithsonian curator Jon Grinspan discusses his dramatic new book about a spontaneous movement that helped elect Abraham ...

A document in which Abraham Lincoln set in motion the Union's military response to the launch of the Civil War is now among ...

Illinois' governor and first lady have donated a key Civil War document signed by Abraham Lincoln to the presidential library ...

In early 1861, as Erik Larson recounts in The Demon of Unrest, Fort Sumner in South Carolina withstood the first attack by ...

Treachery, grievance and mistrust: the same dark impulses that provoked the 1861-65 conflict are still simmering in the US ...

The American Civil War was fought between 1861 and 1865 between the Northern states, which wanted to end Black slavery and ...

Der erbitterte Streit um den Abtreibungsparagraphen zeigt, wie weit es in den USA gekommen ist. Der Senat von Arizona ...

At first, it was the rare binding that caught the eye of Danielle Lin, a senior book specialist with XXX, (I’m guessing its ...

One of the most fateful documents of Abraham Lincoln ... on Fort Sumter sparked the Civil War. The 163-year-old document ...

The document in which Abraham Lincoln set the Union's military response to the launch of the U.S. Civil War in motion is now among Illinois' prized papers of the 16th president, thanks to a ...

This photo provided by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential ... on Fort Sumter started the Civil War. Illinois Gov.