Tomorrow will be the 250th anniversary of the “ shot heard ‘round the world ” that began the American Revolution. Next year, ...

DC was only part of the U.S. to pay off slave owners for freeing enslaves persons they held.

Ashley became the driving force for the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, legally ending slavery forever. [Jerry Klinger] ...

On April 14, 1775, the first slavery abolition society in North America -- the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes ...

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

Emancipation Day honors the work that led to president Abraham Lincoln abolishing slavery in the district, freeing more than 3,000 people. LaToya Foster, the director of the Office of Cable Television ...

Lincoln and Juárez never met but kept close diplomatic ties for years, likely a factor in covert U.S. help against the invasion of Mexico.

A pair of gloves carried by President Lincoln on the night he was shot could sell for over $1 million. Read about the Chicago ...

American schoolchildren are taught that the slaves in confederate states were freed when Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862. However, while that may be true in ...

Black regiments led an as­sault on and eventually captured a key Southern fort helping bring the Civil War to an end. The ...

Seward had been stabbed in the face and neck with a Bowie knife by another conspirator, Lewis Powell. In a near miraculous ...