Dozens of people gathered for the unveiling of a new statue of President Abraham Lincoln outside the African American Civil War Museum in Northwest D.C.

Set for Oct. 2, “Lincoln and the Constitution: The 13th Amendment—a Conversation Between Scholars” is at 6 p.m. in the John ...

The Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation can help us predict how the Supreme Court will likely rule on birthright ...

The Lincoln conspirators who planned to kill President Abe Lincoln wanted to murder Vice President Andrew Johnson and ...

Four score and five years after the founding of the American republic, disunion and civil war threatened what President Abraham Lincoln called “the fate of these United States.” Akin to the Revolution ...

PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (WTAP) -On September 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issues a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which sets a date for the freedom of more than 3 million enslaved in the ...

It was a week before Thanksgiving Day in 1963. I was halfway through my shift at the punch press at Waterloo Register. A manager came up to me on the assembly line and said, “JFK was shot.”  I was 30 ...

Discover the extraordinary story of Robert Smalls, a former slave who became a hero during the Civil War. Learn how his actions changed the course of the war.

On this day in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. The document set a date for ...

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned that white men of a certain religion are responsible for so much damage just ...

By the 1930s and 1940s, Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal was described as “a march toward fascism,” and his court-packing plan ...