The film, discovered last summer in a basement archive, sheds light on early 20th century depictions of the Civil War and the ...

Highlights include: President Abraham Lincoln's handwritten Gettysburg ... Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress Original sketches of the Washington Monument and Vietnam War Memorial.

When Abraham Lincoln was preparing his speech for his second inaugural in 1865, historians think he cut the sentences and ...

Reconstruction of the South, 1857. Library of Congress. January 1: President Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that the majority of the nation's slave population ...

But American book banning started with the Puritans, 140 years before the United States Chris Klimek Every year, the Library of Congress selects 25 recordings that are "culturally, historically or ...

Abraham Lincoln was an American hero — but a flawed one. As we celebrate his essential contributions to our country, let's ...

The hat is pictured here at the Abraham Lincoln Library & Presidential Museum. Rich Hein/Sun-Times Share A 16-month state study has found no new evidence to authenticate that a multimillion-dollar ...

Abraham Lincoln won election to the U.S. Congress in 1846. As a Congressman, he criticized the United States' participation in the Mexican War. Still, he worked to help Zachary Taylor, a hero of ...

Major Acts In practical terms, the achievements of Abraham Lincoln are ... which included the army, Congress, foreign countries, and the ordinary Americans he was conscious of representing. It must be ...

Legacy Abraham Lincoln transformed the role of the President allowing for the chief executive to hold full power over Congress and its other branches. He was strongly committed to the preservation of ...