‘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.

Between 2020 and 2022, book titles banned in libraries and schools (including books on race, slavery, sex and gender identity) rose more than 1,100%. "Sunday Morning" talks with advocates for ...

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 ...

The annual Lincoln Prize went this year to two authors of books on Robert E. Lee, Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. An honorable mention was given to an author for her exhaustive study of ...

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.

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 ...

What Lincoln’s thoughts on democracy can teach us during troubled times. In ‘Our Ancient Faith,’ historian Allen C. Guelzo reflects on the 16th president’s views on liberty, law, economics ...