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

Americans have looked to the Declaration of Independence when they sought to remedy contemporary problems and create new ...

Stowed secretly in Lincoln's pocket. We dig into the family story of a secret message etched inside Abraham Lincoln's pocket ...

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

On this day 160 years ago, the United States of America ratified the 13th Amendment of the Constitution, immortalizing a self-evident principle that ...

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

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

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

"I am naturally anti-slavery" : young Abraham Lincoln and slavery -- "Always a Whig" : Lincoln, the law, and the second party system -- "The monstrous injustice ...

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 sculptor of Mount Rushmore also sculpted a Confederate memorial on Stone Mountain in Georgia, which honors defenders of ...