Abraham Lincoln was an American hero — but a flawed one. As we approach Juneteenth, let's also acknowledge some ugly truths ...

Former President Donald J. Trump is standing tens toes down that he is the Black community’s political savior while ...

In 1863, Abraham Lincoln enacted a plan to resettle 453 freed Black Americans to a Haitian island. Lincoln viewed colonization as a way to free Black Americans — but keep them apart from white ...

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 ...

An Abraham Lincoln–signed copy of the 13th Amendment, as well as a copy of the Emacipation Proclamation, are heading to ...

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after Civil War’s end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation ...

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 ...

An incident' is related of the meeting of Col. ZACHARY TAYLOR, Lieut. ROBERT ANDERSON, Lieut. JEFFERSON DAVIS and private ABRAHAM LINCOLN, View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

“I have been the best president for the Black population since Abraham Lincoln,” Trump said when pressed again about Black voters. "You're the one that held me up for 35 minutes," he later ...

White, professor of American Studies at Christopher Newport University, to discuss his new book, co-authored with William J. Griffing, A Great and Good Man: Rare, First-Hand Accounts and Observations ...

In 1862, Abraham Lincoln held a forum to consider a potential solution to the country’s conflict: What if all free Black people left ... star actors of color as white historical figures.