“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.

Jonathan W. White - Author, A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House Before dawn on May 13, 1862, Robert Smalls stealthily took command of a Confederate ...

At the Smithsonian Museum, thoughts about Trump’s Executive Order, “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History,” came to ...

Those involved in unleashed political fighting today should learn from this end-of-war, Easter season moment from York ...

At first I thought it was in the 1950s, after World War II, when many white ... that Jim Crow, Black Codes, KKK and "legal discrimination” began in earnest. President Abraham Lincoln had moved ...

Still, he traces the efforts of those who genuinely wanted to prevent war and the trauma of secession—and shows how Abraham ... of white families. Stephens wrote indignantly to Lincoln of ...

FILE – People gather for a ribbon cutting ceremony at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery to announce the installation of a life-size painting of President Abraham Lincoln by artist W ...

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It was here, on August 27, 1858, that U.S. senatorial candidates Abraham ... Lincoln would not only grant citizenship and the right to vote to freed slaves but would allow black men to marry white ...

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Abraham Lincoln was an American hero — but a ... you are yet far removed from being placed on an equality with the white race.” Lincoln Blamed the Civil War on Black Americans President Lincoln, ...