“The American Civil War has an official end date, and that end date is August 1866,” Vorenberg said. Notably, the official ...

National Museum of American History Abraham Lincoln's Watch, around 1858 National Museum of African American History and Culture Photograph of James Brown, Civil War veteran, with a picture of Abraham ...

In his 1863 Gettysburg Address, he argued that the war must lead to “a new birth of freedom” or it would have been fought in vain. Major Acts In practical terms, the achievements of Abraham Lincoln ...

The only photograph of Abraham Lincoln in death almost ... old folders when he came across a faded brown photograph and immediately recognized Lincoln. The discovery made newspapers around the ...

A groundbreaking new documentary suggests that America's 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, may have led a ... historians from Harvard, Columbia, Brown, Wellesley, and Rutgers.

Lincoln had struggled to heal the wounds of war, yet he became one of its last victims, and the war left the country no less divided. Abraham Lincoln grew up on the American frontier. Born in a ...