Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

On April 15, 2019, a devastating fire collapsed the roof and spire of Notre Dame Cathedral, but fire officials said they ...

On April 14, 1775, the first slavery abolition society in North America -- the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes ...

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US President Abraham Lincoln was shot in the head by stage actor John Wilkes Booth while attending a play at Ford’s Theatre ...

“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.

_ This April 1865 photo provided by the Library of Congress shows President Abraham Lincoln’s box at Ford’s Theater, ...

List of fair premiums shared newspaper space with Lincoln's death and an announcement of a circus coming to town.

One person in history has defied George Washington’s two-term example. Franklin D. Roosevelt died 80 years ago Saturday, in ...

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

Black regiments led an as­sault on and eventually captured a key Southern fort helping bring the Civil War to an end. The ...