Abraham Lincoln changed the course of history not through brute assertion of power but by wrestling with its limits.

A recent Grammy-award winning group will be at this year’s Fifth Annual Juneteenth Jubilee, the Cool Spring Downtown District ...

Director of the African American History and Culture Museum Lonnie Bunch looks at the forces that brought about the January 1, 1863 order. Who Was the Real Cleopatra? (03:31) Fact or Fiction? The ...

Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Lincoln’s presidency is too often reduced to its most dramatic acts: the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of federal authority, the conduct of ...