‘Lincoln’s Peace’ Review: The War That Wouldn’t Die Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Elsewhere in the country, parts of the rebel army fought on.

Like many people, I know a little about Billy the Kid – he spent some of his growing-up years in Silver City, he was on trial ...

Both men were born in Kentucky, about the same age, married with young children. They were tall and imposing: Lincoln 6-foot-4, Davis 6-foot, and they had been U.S. congressmen in the 1840s.

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.

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 ...

George Saunders Reflects on His Novel ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ The third in a series of conversations with authors appearing on our “Best Books of the 21st Century” list.

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.

If this were not labeled a novel, Nancy Horan’s “The House of Lincoln” (Sourcebooks Landmark, 432 pgs., $17.99 softcover) would read like a marvelous history.