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 ...

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

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

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

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

On a fine day in 1860, Clarissa was ready to head home from a visit to Jacksonville,. Unfortunately, her horse was reluctant to make the ride back to the Birdseye ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Several Medal of Honor recipients performed their deeds of heroism before they ever settled in Arkansas. This includes two ...