The 1860 presidential election, which saw Abraham Lincoln win without Southern support, intensified divisions over slavery ...
On November 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered a powerful 272-word speech, later known as the Gettysburg Address, dedicating ...
British abolitionists recognized the contradiction in the colonists’ position. One of the founders of the abolitionist ...
Wood, born into slavery, fought in the Union Army. He returned to Robertsville and founded Wood Chapel and School for other former slaves.
In 1857, the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott ruling denied Black citizenship, upheld slavery, and stands as one of the Court's ...
America's conflicted history over its treatment of immigrants and what President Lincoln might say about today's immigration ...
Like 'monks' in the Middle Ages, volunteers are working to preserve cultural treasures they fear are under threat from ...
The ceremony will be a dedication of the new Elijah Wood Civil War Trails Marker. Wood was born into slavery in the area that ...
Netflix’s Death by Lightning retells the story of James A. Garfield, the 20th U.S. President whose 1881 assassination changed ...
Netflix’s Death by Lightning retells James Garfield’s assassination. See the eight U.S. presidents who never finished their ...
The other vision — an animating force inside the Trump administration — is exclusive and ethnonationalist. Vice President JD ...