IDAHO FALLS – Abraham Lincoln said goodbye to his friend for the last time as they left the meeting that afternoon. It was Friday, April 14, 1865. America’s 16th president was 42 days into his ...

President Abraham Lincoln issued his famous “Proclamation of Thanksgiving” on Oct. 3, 1863, with the Civil War still raging. As is our annual tradition, we reproduce the text below in ...

Former President Donald Trump named Ronald Reagan his favorite president when he was "little" and dinged Abraham Lincoln's handling of the Civil War. Appearing on set on Friday's Fox & Friends ...

Amid Civil War, Lincoln Declared a Day of Thanks. ... President Abraham Lincoln revived the holiday with a proclamation establishing the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.

As Mr. Wolfowtiz notes, Lincoln’s “vision” and “genius” was that he understood how to heal a country that had been split in half by a horrendous civil war.

Facebook X Reddit Email Save. President Donald Trump suggested that he could have handled the Civil War better than then-President Abraham Lincoln in a meeting with reporters at The White House on ...

While a Representative, Lincoln challenged President Polk on the claim that the inciting incident of the Mexican-American War had been on U.S. soil. Lincoln’s opposition to the war ultimately ...

Susannah Ural, the Frank and Virginia Williams Chair for Abraham Lincoln and Civil War Studies, will host the 2024 Williams Lecture and speak with two of the nation's leading Civil War historians ...

Focusing on the first two years of the Civil War in “Lincoln vs. Davis: The War of the Presidents,” Nigel Hamilton alternates between the two men in assessing their actions as commanders in chief.

CNN’s Scott Jennings attempted the unenviable task of translating what he thought former President Donald Trump meant earlier in the day when he suggested Abraham Lincoln could have “settled ...