The Civil War was really the watershed,” he wrote Meyer. “Lincoln was America’s first dictator, and almost all the Republican ...

After a long treatise on the illegality of secession, Lincoln closed with a single flourish. His plea to the “better angels ...

The Heartland is steeped in history, and one moment that occurred almost exactly 167 years ago serves as a prime example.

Who hasn't heard ad nauseam that Nevada was admitted to the Union in 1864 because its silver and gold production was ...

From a U.S. perspective, the 1860s were largely defined by the Civil War, the height and demise of Abraham Lincoln, and the ...

How did one man attract such public adoration and murderous wrath all at the same time?

A moody sculpture of Abraham Lincoln by John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum was stolen from Houmas House plantation in Sept. 2025 ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - A new app, developed with contributions from Dr. Eric Jackson of Northern Kentucky University, aims to ...

While some Kentucky Democrats are pulling for Andy Beshear to run for the Senate next year, others want him to toss his hat ...

22, 1862—President Abraham Lincoln issued a bold executive order ... so must all enslaved persons in border states that still allowed slavery. Even more sweepingly, slavery itself must end, everywhere ...

On an artificial island 4 miles from downtown stands an unlikely reminder of the cost of national disunion, a granite ...