Historian Richard Hofstadter was a well-known progressive, but his take on Abraham Lincoln certainly differs from the ...

Abraham Lincoln served as Commander in Chief during the nation’s darkest hour, guiding the Union through the Civil War with ...

Confederate myths are confronted as John Dunphy pushes back with facts ...

An opportunity for families and friends and, by extension, communities, states, and the country itself to have a national ...

With a national day of “Thanksgiving,” Lincoln created a kind of secular sabbath, a day for the country to find gratitude and ...

The idea for a national Thanksgiving holiday was not Lincoln’s own. It came from Sarah Josepha Hale, among the most ...

This Thanksgiving, we can be thankful for Sarah Hale, the 34-year-old widow who advocated for a permanent holiday, and for President Lincoln, who said yes.

The American Revolution filmmaker talks about the hypocrisies of US history and what’s missing from our political lives today ...

Thanksgiving has become a political mess, but it is still a time to give thanks for the fact that we are able to survive in ...

But to millions of Indigenous Americans, the story of Thanksgiving is also closely intertwined with their history of invasion ...

Reflecting on America’s history of gratitude, this Thanksgiving we celebrate not just our freedoms and progress, but the ...

Between 1861 and 1865, Americans killed 620,000 of their fellow citizens. Most died on battlefields, in an awful war that ...