Here's what Frederick Douglass said during a visit to Elmira, which drew people from everywhere within a hundred miles.

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

One of her largest works, a greyscale portrait of Abe Lincoln ... and it’s all color-coded. Each color category — pink, red, brown, so on — has its own bin, and skin tones, which are ...

Large canvasses signaled the grandeur of presidents and could accommodate Abraham Lincoln in a thoughtful pose or Chester ... downward is a flattering angle to avoid the loose skin that gathers around ...

National Park Service employees dust the statue of President Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in May 2022. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post) I decided, the other evening, to walk to the ...

Ansary in “Dealmaker-In-Chief.” Abraham Lincoln chose for his cabinet very capable individuals who were his rivals for the Republican nomination to be president: William Seward, Salmon Chase ...

When Abraham Lincoln was preparing his speech for his second inaugural in 1865, historians think he cut the sentences and paragraphs from a printed draft and pasted them onto the copy he planned ...

In the new documentary Lover of Men: The Untold Story of Abraham Lincoln, a group of scholars argue that the 16th President of the United States had sexual relationships with multiple men during ...

The 16-millimeter film is believed to be the only known surviving copy of "The Heart of Lincoln," a silent movie about the life of President Abraham Lincoln and American life during the Civil War.

Abraham Lincoln ... Later scenes follow Mrs Lincoln into her widowhood, and other controversial historical figures of mid-19th-Century America – abolitionist John Brown, Chief Justice Roger ...

(Toronto Public Library) More than 100 years after his death, Anderson Ruffin Abbott's visit to the White House and his relationship with President Abraham Lincoln ... Desmond Brown is a GTA ...

Bravely eccentric two-hander about Mary Todd Lincoln, Civil War-era first lady of the United States Abraham Lincoln was a US president so great that his face is carved 60ft high into the hard ...