American schoolchildren are taught that the slaves in confederate states were freed when Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862. However, while that may be true ...

freed people who were once slaves. A multitude of joy and singing soon surrounded Lincoln — as if he were a vision of Moses.

The two greatest presidents died in April, 80 years apart, one 80 years ago. Abraham Lincoln, 56, was slain while enjoying a ...

DC was only part of the U.S. to pay off slave owners for freeing enslaves persons they held.

The white-leather gloves are stained with blood from the night the slain president wore them to the theater.

Ashley became the driving force for the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, legally ending slavery forever. [Jerry Klinger] ...

In the summer of 1859, a year before his election to the U.S. presidency, Abraham Lincoln received a curious letter in the ...

It was here, on August 27, 1858, that U.S. senatorial candidates Abraham Lincoln ... He warned that Lincoln would not only grant citizenship and the right to vote to freed slaves but would allow ...

Perched at the top of Bascom Hill, Abraham Lincoln overlooks Madison from a granite pedestal. As the 16th president of the United States, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves ...

The tiny central Illinois village, where Lincoln accidentally spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, perhaps did as much to prepare him to be the Union-saving 16th president as any other aspect of his ...

Richard Kreitner’s deeply researched book about the Civil War era illuminates the lives of six Jewish Americans and their ...