Whether you’re a Civil War buff or get all your learnin’ from Drunk History, HistoryMiami keeps churning out lively events that tempt locals to dive into the past. For the 150th anniversary of Abraham ...

Susannah Ural, the Frank and Virginia Williams Chair for Abraham Lincoln and Civil War Studies, will host the 2024 Williams Lecture and speak with two of the nation's leading Civil War historians ...

Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War will be the topic of the next — and next-to-last — Trumbull Town Hall lecture. Louis Masur, a professor of American Studies and History at Rutgers University, will ...

IDAHO FALLS – Abraham Lincoln said goodbye to his friend for the last time as they left the meeting that afternoon. It was Friday, April 14, 1865. America’s 16th president was 42 days into his second ...

“Lincoln’s Peace” offers a pair of fascinating what ifs. Had the Union maintained a larger and stronger post-Civil War occupying army, could it have banished all the residual slavery practices and ...

Two Pottsville militia units, Washington Artillerists and National Light Infantry, were among the First Defenders to answer Pres. Abraham Lincoln’s call to arms at the start of the war on April ...

Bullet to the brain, from one farm boy to another. When John Wilkes Booth fired a .44 lead ball into Abraham Lincoln’s head, the murder shook a nation to its core and led to 13 days of bedlam rivaling ...

From 1861 to 1865, the United States was ripped in two by war – with the Union in the North and the seceded states, the Confederacy, in the South. These four years witnessed unprecedented bloodshed, ...

“Lincoln’s Peace” offers a pair of fascinating what ifs. Had the Union maintained a larger and stronger post-Civil War occupying army, could it have banished all the residual slavery practices and ...