Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham ... after Lincoln took office, Confederate forces fired on Union troops at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, and the Civil War began.

heralded the victory of the Union and Republican President Abraham Lincoln, although Lincoln did not live to see the ratification of the amendment in December 1865. Our collections provide many ...

These horrifying Civil War images illustrated how truly devastating ... Besides shooting portraits of Union soldiers, President Abraham Lincoln on horseback, and officers weighing strategy in ...

Trump's habit is to treat Lincoln not only as a giant of history, but something of a political contemporary. And a flawed one ...

Finally, constitutionally and politically, Lincoln had to grapple with the evolving meaning of the Civil ... the war must lead to “a new birth of freedom” or it would have been fought in vain. Major ...

Author Erik Larson, one of the most popular authors of non-fiction history, joins us to discuss his new book The Demon of ...