Vet creates homemade Lincoln Logs and donates to schools
In his mid-80s, veteran John Will is keeping himself busy. Since leaving the military, he has made more than 750 sets of Lincoln Logs – by hand – and donated…
Today in military history: Emancipation Proclamation
On Sep. 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued a preliminary emancipation proclamation, which would free more than 3 million Black souls from slavery in the United States. Many associate slavery…
How people give Abraham Lincoln the last laugh at his killer
It was not an ending befitting a man of Lincoln’s personal stature. He died in a bed at the House of a local tailor, William Petersen. He didn’t die right away, instead dying the next morning after a night of labored breathing. His assassin, John …
Watch an interview with the last surviving witness to the Lincoln Assassination
Samuel J. Seymour was away from his home for the first time at just five years old. He was with his father on a business trip to Washington, D.C., a city filled to the brim with soldiers and other men with guns. He was nervous and scared at the sigh…
The 9 best Civil War movies
It’s been more than 150 years since Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Army Commander Ulysses S. Grant at Wilmer McLean’s Appomattox home, but the legacy of the Civil War still lingers.
From the recent controversies over…