As the election crept closer, the voices of secession grew louder. The Daily Delta in New Orleans ran an editorial on this day in 1860. Echo...

I thought it was going to be a slow news week as far as Lincoln was concerned, but as it turns out, Fidel Castro proved me wrong. The Cuban...

While the Lincoln family continued to mourn the loss of family friend Edward D. Baker , ten-year-old Willie Lincoln put the finishing touch...

Everything in his background pointed toward success. His mother came from a prominent Pennsylvania family, while his father was a talented s...

The United States House of Representatives passed a bill this week that would create something called “The Abraham Lincoln National Heritage...

Sometimes the best place to hide is right out in the open. Three Lincoln documents have been "discovered" this week. Guess where t...

Vandals defaced a train depot in Peekskill, New York. They painted swastikas on the door post and sprayed the “n-word” and other offensive l...

The Lincoln family was not prepared to hear that Edward D. Baker had been killed at the Battle of Ball's Bluff. He had long been a welc...

Very little had happened since the humiliation at Manasas Junction in July. “All Quiet Along the Potomac,” declared the war correspondents. ...

An eleven year old girl wrote to the Republican candidate for president in 1860. She had just seen his picture and had a bit of advice for h...

Colonel Robert E. Lee had taken a leave of absence from the military. His father-in-law had recently passed away and left him a large, but ...

News of the raid spread quickly to the countryside, but slaves did not rally around John Brown . Instead, local farmers, militiamen, and sho...

He is one of the most controversial characters in American history. Some say he was a mad man, a fanatic, a terrorist, and even a murderer, ...

The campaign dragged on for more than five months. For the past three months, the two aspiring candidates for the United States Senate met i...