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

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

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

On Nov. 19, 1863, then-President Abraham Lincoln delivered a powerful 272-word speech, later known as the Gettysburg Address, ...

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 ...

American history has been marked by intense controversies over both slavery and immigration. Abraham Lincoln denounced slavery as a moral evil but upheld the Constitution, insisting on due process for ...

On March 4, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln stood on the east portico of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, to offer his ...

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

Some listeners were startled; a newspaper reporter later wrote that Lincoln’s speech “passed unnoticed by many”; another ...

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.

As I write this (November 19th) there are commemorative ceremonies in the Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg marking President Abraham Lincoln’s most famous speech. Because of that ...