The complexities of leadership often manifest most vividly during times of crisis, where the decisions of a leader can reverberate through history. Abraham Lincoln, during the tumultuous years of the ...

At the height of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln, at the urging of a magazine editor, proclaimed a national ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Editorial: Lincoln offers a model of how we, in the midst of seemingly never-ending conflicts, can celebrate Thanksgiving.

BLOOMINGTON — The tall man with a stovepipe hat and recognizable mole shared the good news Saturday that he had received the articles of surrender from Gen. Robert E. Lee, declaring the end to the ...

I sensed a possible sale, so I showed him the books I’ve written about the Civil War. The gentleman politely declined and ...

On Nov. 19, 1863, then-President Abraham Lincoln delivered a powerful 272-word speech, later known as the Gettysburg Address, ...