For all his modesty and wartime preoccupation, the 16th president was one of the most photographed men of his time, with a ...

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

I'm sure that Abraham Lincoln knew who Augusta was ... Abbott's great-granddaughter, Catherine Slaney said the black-and-white shawl from Mary Lincoln was cherished by the family.

In the early 1960s, when I was a little boy, the Ku Klux Klan attacked my family by burning a cross in front of our house, ...

On the one hand, Trump wants to eliminate everything that has anything to do with equity and diversity, including any ...

Black History Month was recognized nationally in 1976, when President Gerald Ford designated the month as a time for the ...

Benjamin Quarles, a celebrated historian at Morgan State University, faced an uphill battle to chronicle the Black experience ...

In days following a white supremacist demonstration at ... Leaders in the historically Black community of Lincoln Heights plan to meet with the community Monday to address that and to process ...

Can we learn from the past? We must. Immediately after the Civil War, radical Republicans collaborated with President Abraham Lincoln to assist the newly freed slaves with a program called ...

Myths around Black History Month continue, Whitehead said, including the idea that the U.S. government purposely chose the shortest month of the year. In reality, Woodson chose February because two ...