LECLAIRE, Iowa (KWQC) - Eighth graders in Pleasant Valley re-examined one of the most important events in American history, the Lincoln assassination. Students stepped into their classroom turned ...

Susannah J. Ural, the Frank and Virginia Williams Chair for Abraham Lincoln and Civil War Studies, and Kaelynn Edmondson, archival project coordinator, will host a lecture and exhibit unveiling ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Treasured artifacts ...

Five days after the end of the Civil War, the joy of peace was shattered when John Wilkes Booth and his gang of followers put into motion a plan to “decapitate” the U.S. federal government. In ...