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

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

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

Lincoln was born in Hodgenville, Kentucky, in 1809. When he was 22, he moved to New Salem, Illinois. In 1834, he was elected ...

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

Abraham Lincoln’s firm resolve during his last days demonstrated his enduring commitment to the common good', A CT historian writes.

Lincoln’s election was itself evidence of the sectional discord that had ripped the United States apart during the 1850s, as slavery became a critical political and a moral issue. As Lincoln had ...

Defenders of slavery argued that the writers of the Declaration did not mean all mankind, but only white people. They were wrong, as John Hale and Abraham Lincoln explained. Lincoln saw that the ...

This is the first part of a two-part series about Lincoln School and the anniversary of integration in Richmond. The end of ...