That All Men Are Created Equal” features bills of sale, reward posters and more to explain slavery’s role in the Civil War, ...

As early as 1849, Abraham Lincoln believed that slaves should ... The Emancipation Proclamation did not free all slaves in the United States. Rather, it declared free only those slaves living ...

I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.” 37 —Abraham Lincoln The Civil War was about slavery, although both sides sometimes pretended that it was not.

This proved prophetic with the collapse of the national party systems (the Whigs disappeared altogether) as North and South evolved into separate societies—one based on free labor, the other on ...

Observer welcomes Louis Masur who writes and lectures about a range of topics including Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, the Founding Fathers, visual culture, and the history of Rock and Roll.

Most of the 45 men who have served as president were e indifferent to the needs of Black folks or actively opposed to ...

Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.

America’s 16th president, Abraham Lincoln ... Emancipation Proclamation, freeing enslaved people in the Confederate states. Lincoln’s efforts to abolish slavery earned him the nickname ...

Sadly, America fell short of the promise of human equality because the states permitted slavery. “[The Founders] said that man was entitled to be free ... Hale and Abraham Lincoln explained.

“As a result, workers and their unions organised a meeting at Manchester Free Trade ... sent a letter to Abraham Lincoln declaring support for the blockade, saying they were going through great ...