Stanton: Lincoln's War Secretary NPR's Ron Elving reviews a massive new tome on the life of Edwin Stanton, ... it's probably because of what he did after Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865.

In early April 1865, President Abraham Lincoln made a bold decision: He would travel to the front lines of the Civil War in Virginia to see for himself the Union Army’s effort to win the ...

Menzies stars as Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, who leads the search for Abraham Lincoln’s assassin. (Chris Reel / Apple TV+) By Stuart Miller. March 15, 2024 3 AM PT .

Everything remember about Abe Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth and the Civil War before watching the Apple TV+ drama. ... Edwin Stanton was Lincoln’s Secretary of War as well as his close friend.

Abraham Lincoln is often ranked as one of the United States’s most important presidents for his role in steering the country through the Civil War and his insistence on abolishing slavery ...

He thought everything was over. It was the summer of 1864, and Abraham Lincoln believed his campaign for re-election amid the Civil War was doomed: The president was to be defeated, his policies ...

Focusing on the first two years of the Civil War in “Lincoln vs. Davis: The War of the Presidents,” Nigel Hamilton alternates between the two men in assessing their actions as commanders in chief.

Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War will be the topic of the next — and next-to-last — Trumbull Town Hall lecture. Louis Masur, a professor of American Studies and History at Rutgers University ...