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Abraham Lincoln was an American hero — but a flawed one. As we approach Juneteenth, let's also acknowledge some ugly truths ...
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 ...
Randall, who is Black, angrily denounces his husband Barry, who is White, for defending the ... Fox News Digital reached out to Abraham Lincoln historian David J. Kent, author of three books ...
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 ...
On May 30, Abraham Lincoln signed a law awarding ... to white racism—a way to ease white Northerners into supporting the enlistment of Black soldiers. Nevertheless, Lincoln assured Douglass ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.