Trump's habit is to treat Lincoln not only as a giant of history, but something of a political contemporary. And a flawed one ...
Abraham Lincoln’s assassination ... other African Americans felt about the president’s death. Everyone—white and black—knew that Lincoln’s role in ending slavery had spawned the ...
The Tribune, of Wednesday morning, copied conspicuously from the Albany Atlas and Argus an article intended to prove that Mr. LINCOLN holds ... equality of the black and white races -- that ...
On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected President ... a position that horrified African Americans and their white allies. Lincoln's statement, however, did not satisfy the Confederacy ...
A caller identifying as Rick, an Indiana Republican, called into C-Span Sunday to remind viewers what people in power sounded like 70 years ago. Or maybe it was all a joke. Or a dare. Or the ...
Forced Into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream with Lerone Bennett, Jr. is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones ...
On New Year's Eve 1862, a day before he issued the Emancipation Proclamation to end slavery in America, President Abraham ... Lincoln met with a committee of five Black leaders at the White ...
In addition to being president, Abraham Lincoln was the post-master of New Salem ... or about half of the 1,100 people who entered Illinois with Black Hawk in 1832 died; approximately seventy seven ...