With the Emancipation Proclamation turning 150 years old this month, “Melissa Harris Perry” revisited the document and what it meant, for the rebellious south, for President Abraham Lincoln ...

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A mural celebrating 169 years since Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous "lost speech" in Bloomington was unveiled Thursday ...

"What happened in Bloomington 169 years ago ... ignited Lincoln's march to the presidency and eventually led to emancipation, ...

He used that point to illustrate the importance of keeping alive the spirit of the Emancipation Proclamation, which President Lincoln issued on Jan. 1, 1863. The executive order gave freedom to ...

Lincoln Depot Museum In March of 1863, amidst the American Civil War, Frederick Douglass announced, “The day dawns; the morning star is bright upon the horizon! The iron gate […] ...

Memorial Day is supposed to be about mourning the nation's fallen service members, but it's come to anchor the unofficial ...

It was first widely observed on May 30, 1868 to commemorate the sacrifices of Civil War soldiers, by proclamation of Gen. John A. Logan of the Grand Army of the Republic, an organization of former ...