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

The president’s iconic beard was a product of the anxious new realities of the photographic age.

Richard Kreitner's 'Fear No Pharaoh" unpacks the myths surrounding Jews and slavery in and around the Civil War and its ...

Before Salmon P. Chase was Secretary of the Treasury and Supreme Court chief justice, he was a Cincinnati attorney defending ...

Abraham Lincoln, the greatest American president, was also in my view the best of all presidential ... nub of the matter in the controversy over slavery and secession in his own time, and the ...

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

Workers in Kansas meat-processing plants try their best to stay put and stay positive, despite the ever-present danger of ...

"When we see efforts to erase our history...it's actually going to make us weaker [and] less informed," said Alan Spear tells ...

A Washington Post review of websites operated by the National Park Service found that edits on dozens of pages since ...

When I joined the conservative movement in the 1980s, there were two types of people: those who cared earnestly about ideas, ...

all references to President Abraham Lincoln’s views of the war were removed, as were some references to Union Army commander Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s views. Some mentions of slavery were cut ...