Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.

This interpretation, whose name comes from an 1858 address by William Seward, interprets the Civil ... Kansas was admitted as a free state in January 1861. The Supreme Court had ruled that ...

Richland County has an interesting link to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln -- and the death of his killer, John Wilkes Booth.

the others favoring Seward. With Lincoln’s subsequent presidency, Hitchcock lobbied to be appointed as Nebraska’s secretary of state but was instead appointed U.S. marshal in 1861.

In 1861, McClellan was using his command of the ... Of a night when Lincoln, Secretary of State William Seward and Lincoln’s secretary John Hay went to McClellan’s house, she writes: Told ...

Hidden in the footnotes of history books, these lesser-known leaders of Greek origin held great power over numerous countries ...

The Seward House Museum has wrapped up its $3.1 million Barn and Carriage House project, originally funded by the Downtown ...

Princes William and Harry will be in mourning following the sad news of a "surrogate father" figure, according to an expert. It has emerged that Graham Craker, a protection officer of both the ...

Paul Revere was immortalized by Longfellow's poem and became an American icon. William Dawes, the other midnight rider, is buried in an unmarked grave.

In a move that certainly seems pointed, Prince William just made Jason Knauf CEO of The Earthshot Prize. If this means nothing to you: quick reminder that Jason is the former royal aide who ...