Three men spent time in jail under suspicion of being involved in the murder of Presdient Lincoln 160 years ago. Two were ...

Not striking while the iron is hot can indeed have devastating impact. Admittedly, none of us can see into the future, ...

Often considered our greatest president, Abraham Lincoln (Daniel Day-Lewis in the movie) is definitely written about the most. More than 16,000 books have been published since Lincoln's 1865 ...

When Thurlow Weed, William Seward's campaign manager (Seward was Lincoln's chief rival for the Republican presidential nomination) first met Lincoln, he noted: "He sees all who go there, hears all ...

While these words belong to Seward, the themes are Lincoln’s. The Thanksgiving Proclamation was not the first time that the president had called on Americans to turn toward heaven.

On April 14, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was shot. An attack was also made on the life of Secretary of State William Seward. These events started one of the greatest manhunts in our history ...

Another reason that 1968 rings familiar is that the election accelerated the ideological realignment of American politics. It was the "birthing moment of our modern era of polarization," Jill Lepore, ...

There are few better places to talk about Abraham Lincoln than Auburn, home of the president's secretary of state and one of his most influential advisors in William H. Seward.

Lincoln was not as well known as William Seward or Salmon P. Chase or Edward Bates, but unlike them, he was in a position to confront the author of the Kansas-Nebraska Act on his home turf.

Seward served as the Secretary of State during Abraham Lincoln's presidency. Seward was a part of the abolition movement, and along with his personal friend Harriet Tubman, worked towards ending ...