An advisory committee of historians helps ensure the record of America’s history remains unbiased, transparent and thorough.

President Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to a woman who lost all of her sons in service to the Union during the Civil War, told ...

The allegations come nearly a year after a Santa Clara County Civil Grand Jury report found that San Jose Unified School ...

After her release, Mary Todd Lincoln lived a relatively quiet life, although she remained plagued by both psychiatric and ...

Memorial Day is an appropriate time to reread Abraham Lincoln’s sublime Gettysburg Address honoring Civil War dead.

More than 100 relics connected to President Abraham Lincoln brought in $7.9 million, auctioneers said. The proceeds will help ...

Following the Civil War and the assassination of the president, Douglas penned a letter that was republished in newspapers of ...

The auction — representing 10 percent of the Lincoln Presidential Foundation’s collection — includes the gloves Lincoln ...

The Lincoln Presidential Foundation is in debt, so it is putting more than 100 of its artifacts up for auction. The ...

Ari Siegel turned his love for history into History By Mail, a profitable subscription service that mails replicas of famous ...

Republican National Convention provided the young, burgeoning Chicago with perhaps its first real national recognition.

Editor: In time for Lincoln’s birthday, I have a thought for everyone. Lincoln appealed to “the better angels of our nature.” Trump, it’s been said, gives people permission to be their ...