President Andrew Johnson, having assumed the presidency after Lincoln’s assassination ... over” the South “three or four times before the war entirely ended.” The anomalies multiplied.

John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln. Most Americans know that much history. But the true story goes deeper than one man firing one bullet. When Monica Beletsky learned the assassination ...

The Civil War had begun ... to wait until the Union had a major victory before formally issuing the proclamation. Lincoln's chance came after the Union victory at the Battle of Antietam in ...

Robinette, a hotelier in Virgina before the Civil War, was hired by the Union ... "Pardon for unexecuted part of punishment. A. Lincoln. Sep. 1. 1864." After a month in Florida, Robinette returned ...

“Lincoln’s Peace” offers a pair of fascinating what ifs. Had the Union maintained a larger and stronger post-Civil War occupying army, could it have banished all the residual slavery ...

shows a document signed by President Lincoln in April 1861 ordering the blockade of southern United States ports after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter started the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln ...