The village where Abraham Lincoln came of age is deteriorating. Lincoln lived in New Salem, Illinois, as a young man from 1831 to 1837. The federal government reconstructed the village ...

Hoptak, a Schuylkill County native and Civil War historian, is a park ranger and educator at Gettysburg National ... to the Abraham Lincoln Foundation at a ceremony in the Union League of ...

Abraham Lincoln had New Salem. The tiny central Illinois village, where Lincoln accidentally spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, perhaps did as much to prepare him to be the Union-saving 16th ...

The state secrets privilege allows the U.S. government to withhold sensitive evidence in court cases. Both Democratic and ...

Nevertheless, “’Red Scare’ resonates because it speaks so directly to our current quandary of far left and far right.” Also, ...

At a recent meeting of the local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, members who knew or were also members of another lineage organization, Daughters of the Union Veterans of the ...

If National did replace Christopher ... and it tells the story of Abraham Lincoln’s struggle to win the Republican Party nomination in 1860 and, having done so, his decision to appoint his ...

But when it comes to her own thing, her own endeavors − and there are many others − she goes through a third-party ... that Union Maj. Gen. Edward McCook read President Lincoln's Emancipation ...

fail to understand our pro-union roots. Founded by Abraham Lincoln in 1854 to oppose slavery, the Republican Party was born to support worker’s rights. From 1920 to the 1990s, the national ...

Grassroots Democrats were incensed by Trump’s first victory — with some talk then of primary challengers to leaders — but they mostly channeled their anger toward the president and the GOP, planning ...