The simple narrative today of the southern secession in 1860 and 1861 is that the southern states believed that the ...

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

Presidents Day offers a valuable opportunity to revisit Abraham ... Union, abolish slavery, and work to establish new state constitutions. This conciliatory approach was reiterated in Lincoln ...

Abraham Lincoln spent his birthday in Cincinnati on Feb. 12, 1861, on his way from Springfield, Illinois, to the nation’s capital for his inauguration. The president-elect didn’t know what ...

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 ...

Over the years, Donald Trump has often compared himself to Abraham Lincoln, even calling himself ... push to pass the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery. He also knew that freed slaves ...

In Ottawa, the site of his first debate with Stephen Douglas, Abraham ... states, abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia and excluding slavery from the territories. In fact, Lincoln ...

In “The Most Famous Speech Never Given,” a computer-generated Abraham ... outlawed slavery. After Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, he made it a priority to enshrine abolition ...