In 2025, D.C. is celebrating 20 years of officially observing the holiday. A parade, festival, concert and fireworks will ...

Fremont issued an emancipation proclamation in St. Louis, freeing slaves in Missouri, a bold move that predated President Abraham Lincoln’s more famous Emancipation Proclamation by two years.

Before Salmon P. Chase was Secretary of the Treasury and Supreme Court chief justice, he was a Cincinnati attorney defending ...

It seems like a new biography of President Abraham Lincoln comes out every few years, trying to discern new perspectives of ...

Before his famous debates, before the Civil War rent the nation, before he helped end slavery and before his tragic ...