Here’s what happened in April 1861, leading up to the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, which spurred the launch of the American Civil War.

The village where Abraham Lincoln came of age is deteriorating. Lincoln lived in New Salem, Illinois, as a young man from ...

The Smithsonian, which oversees numerous museums and cultural centers, including the Air and Space Museum and the National ...

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order on the Smithsonian Institution that targets funding to programs that ...

Abraham Lincoln arrived at the New Salem grist mill along the Sangamon River aboard a flatboat that was sinking. Lincoln had ...

The Oluwo of Iwoland, Oba Abdulrosheed Akanbi, urged Nigerians on Thursday to endure the temporary pressures of reform that the country is currently experiencing.He emphasized that President Bola ...

The Oluwo of Iwoland, Oba Abdulrosheed Akanbi, has praised President Bola Tinubu as a rare and transformative leader, suggesting that his type only appears once in a thousand years.In a Thursday ...

Theatrics and the Lincoln Amphitheatre are thrilled to announce open auditions for the summer production of Pioneer Song, a musical celebration of the life and times of President Abraham Lincoln, told ...

Abraham Lincoln changed the course of history not through brute assertion of power but by wrestling with its limits.

Lincoln’s New Salem State Historic Site is a replica of the hamlet where Lincoln lived for six years during his early ...

In December 1862, Abraham Lincoln concluded his address to Congress with these words: ...

We’re now at the point where five corrupt Republicans on the Supreme Court have harmed us so severely that our nation is ...