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

Alan Percy of Manchester Radical Traditions said: “Most people don’t know why there’s a statue of Abraham Lincoln in the centre of Manchester. It’s about Manchester’s industrial past and the battle to ...

In fact, it’s hard to see how the Civil War and the abolition of slavery did not remake the United States. The understandable desire to protect the legacy of Abraham Lincoln’s presidency ...

The U.S. has received an enormous, unacknowledged economic boost from slavery even though it has been abolished for many ... however. After Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in April 1865, his ...

Birthright citizenship is a shield of protection to anyone born in this country, as close to a national self-definition as we ...

Shelling and burning of cities, systematic destruction of entire districts, mass arrests, forced expulsions, wholesale plundering of personal property, even murder all became routine… Abraham Lincoln ...

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But any of us who dream of a prosperous, independent Haiti inspiring Black freedom and equality worldwide or, like new Secretary of State Marco Rubio, want to reduce the migratory pressure from Haiti ...

Abraham Lincoln ... To convince Lincoln that he needed Black Americans to win the war, thus encouraging white Americans to view Black Americans as equals. Douglass argued that Lincoln couldn’t win the ...

There the protagonist, Winston Smith, finds a “fragment of the abolished past”: a newspaper ... to fund the revival of the 1776 Commission to plan the “celebration” of America’s 250th ...