Civil War

Our Cause Is Just is produced by local Lincoln College students in collaboration with the Lincoln Heritage Museum and animates a rare collection of family letters.

An Illinois woman posed as a man and served in the infantry during the Civil War. Was she transgender?More than 100 years after his death, Civil War…

NPR's Ron Elving reviews a massive new tome on the life of Edwin Stanton, certainly one of the most contentious and controversial figures in Abraham Lincoln's cabinet of rivals.

This Sunday is the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The amendment banned slavery in America. To…

It was weeks after Abraham Lincoln's death in mid-April, that has body made it from Washington, D.C. back to Springfield, Illinois. The lifting of a…

You may know the story of the war between the states. But what is often overlooked is the emotional drama the period had on those who lived through it.The…

Harvard professor and author John Stauffer is considered an authority on Lincoln and the Civil War.His latest book charts the evolution of the wartime…

New Philadelphia was a Pike County town, founded by a former slave in 1836. But there is another side to the story... What happened in New Philadelphia…