Another messy detail. Lincoln is always here, always relevant, because we’re still fighting the Civil War. There’s no other ...

A pair of blood-stained white kid-leather gloves carried by the president during the night of his assassination on April 14, ...

It seems like a new biography of President Abraham Lincoln comes out every few years, trying to discern new perspectives of ...

It was in this month in 1865 the Civil War was largely ended, and the long painful task of rebuilding the nation began. It ...

“The American Civil War has an official end date, and that end date is August 1866,” Vorenberg said. Notably, the official ...

The recent release of the last reported bunch of classified files about the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy ...

1913 - The 16th Amendment is ratified by the states, giving Congress the authority to enact an income tax. Congress also introduces the first 1040 form and levies a 1% tax on personal incomes over ...

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The current administration amplifies differences between groups. This approach, which appeals to our evolved psychology, is ...

On June 16, 1861, inventor Thaddeus S. C. Lowe (1832-1913) sent a telegraph from his hot air balloon flying above the ...