So many people died.” Just how witless is his notion that the Civil War was justly avoidable? In 1860 Lincoln and the Republican Party had pledged to prohibit slavery in all states newly ...

Perhaps only twice have Americans experienced anything like this: once at the precipice of civil war at home, the other time ...

Harriet Tubman was posthumously awarded the rank of brigadier general of the Maryland National Guard on Monday in recognition ...

The appeal is an appalling document, which exposes both the political bankruptcy of American liberalism and the deplorable ...

He began studying law and was admitted to the state bar in 1860. When Arkansas seceded from the Union and the Civil War erupted, Boles, a Unionist, enlisted in the Union Army, eventually rising to the ...

November 6th has been a significant date in American history, particularly for presidential elections. In 1860, Abraham ...

In the last months of his life, serious doubts were raised about the alleged soldier's age and the claim that he fought in ...

Cabinet-building has long been crucial for both the success of a presidency and for the direction of the United States. From ...

Abraham Lincoln of Illinois was elected President of the United States of America on November 6, 1860, for a four-year term. One year later, on November 6, 1861, Jefferson Davis of Mississippi was ...

If there’s any takeaway from our 1890s forebears, it’s that no matter how intense an election feels, life always goes on.

The Civil War not a month old, Mormon elder Jacob Gates returned to ... overland travel conditions in that 275-mile stretch ...

A quite similar scenario occurred when a Republican Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860, when a handful of Democratic ...