The Presidential Election of 1860 proved the most divisive in U.S. history, with the election of Abraham Lincoln triggering the secession of Southern states. But how did it play out at the polls?

A culture clash driven by finances and Old World alignments had the Big Apple contemplating leaving the Union. The Civil War ...

On Friday, Nov. 2, 1792, John Phillips, a 32-year-old farmer from Sturbridge, Massachusetts, cast a ballot to help reelect.

Schuylkill County can certainly be proud of coming to the defense of the Union during the Civil War. Two Pottsville militia ...

Until JD Vance, the last top elected tonsorial trendsetter was the mustachioed Vice President Charles Curtis, who left office ...

Modern Democrats would do well to avoid bringing up the past. After all, the Democratic Party as a whole (excluding some ...

After Grant was voted in to succeed Johnson, he appointed Longstreet as the surveyor of customs for New Orleans. Governor ...

A West Virginia man is trying to fill out the history of a dresser he believes once was owned by Abe Lincoln, and used by the ...

U.S. Navy Gunner’s Mate 3rd Class Ozzy Hammond fires a shot line on the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) during fueling-at-sea with Henry J. Kaiser-class fleet ...

That is not the approach that the playwright Cole Escola has taken in Oh, Mary!, which is currently playing on Broadway and has just opened in London. Escola’s question about Mary Todd Lincoln, wife ...

On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the legendary Emancipation Proclamation—one of the most significant documents in human history and a grand edict that paved the way to the ...

SNOW HILL — America is at an inflection point more than five decades since Martin Luther King Jr. led a movement that helped ...