A historical sign on the site near the old Fayette County Courthouse says by 1860 one in four residents of Lexington were ...

Abraham Lincoln said goodbye to his friend for the last time as they left the meeting that afternoon. It was Friday, April 14 ...

President Donald Trump's assertion that Canada should become the 51st state would likely lead to major Democratic electoral ...

So numerous were the removals in the city of Washington that the business of the place seems paralyzed.” No, that isn’t an ...

Mr. W.S. DEMOTT was expelled from Boyle County, Ky., some weeks ago, for having tampered with slaves. Those concerned in his banishment claim that the stories which he published in the Indiana ...

New Civil War research armed with more data gives the fullest picture yet of not just the overall death toll but its disproportionate impact on the South, including Georgia.

To the Editor of the New-York Times: "No more Slave Territory ... to wish -- to satisfy our Union-loving friends in Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas and Missouri.

Both Vermont (1791) and Kentucky (1792) made up between 2 and ... statehood closely tracked the nation's antebellum divide over slavery. A "balance rule" developed whereby Congress usually brought ...

It is a description of Andrew Jackson’s first 40 days on the job, according to James Parton’s 1860 book ... s political enemy Henry Clay of Kentucky. Long before the current White House ...