Lincoln had struggled to heal the wounds of war, yet he became one of its last victims, and the war left the country no less divided. Abraham Lincoln ... was a war to end slavery.

Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.

Major Acts In practical terms, the achievements of Abraham Lincoln ... slavery, and created the possibility of civil and social freedom for African-Americans. However, his assassination prevented him ...

With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...

That All Men Are Created Equal” features bills of sale, reward posters and more to explain slavery’s role in the Civil War, ...

He also played a key role in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s celebrated 1852 novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which historians have argued helped trigger ... President Abraham Lincoln supposedly told her ...

President Lincoln, regarded by historians as one of the best presidents in history, was born on this day in 1809. He is frequently invoked by Trump.

In 1865, as the American Civil War winds inexorably toward conclusion, U.S. president Abraham Lincoln ... population, Lincoln faces his own crisis of conscience -- end slavery or end the war.

Lincoln had struggled to heal the wounds of war, yet he became one of its last victims, and the war left the country no less divided. Abraham Lincoln ... was a war to end slavery.