Two years into America’s Civil War, cotton workers in Manchester defied current opinion among politicians and the press, and pledged their support to the Union.

In replying to a letter of support from Manchester’s cotton workers, US President Lincoln showed how deeply touched he had been.

Two years into the American Civil War, the Union army responded to a dispiriting defeat at Chancellorsville with a decisive and historic victory at Gettysburg.

Following a decisive victory in the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln urged his supporters to make sure that liberty’s advantage was not squandered.

Master-sweep Grimes meets a woman who knows more about him than he feels comfortable with.

Sir Bartle Frere, Governor of Bombay, shared his excitement at the way railways were making Indians more independent.