Abraham Lincoln was an American hero — but a flawed one. As we approach Juneteenth, let's also acknowledge some ugly truths ...

"All persons held as slaves within any State or designated ... thenceforward, and forever free," Lincoln announced. The "Great Emancipator" claimed controversial war powers in making the proclamation.

Two era-defining documents that ended slavery and reshaped American history are to be auctioned. Get any of our free email ...

Rather, it declared free only those slaves living in states not under Union control. William Seward, Lincoln's secretary of state, commented, "We show our symapthy with slavery by emancipating ...

Rare copies of both the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment will be auctioned off in Sotheby’s upcoming books ...

Though "contraband" slaves had been declared free, Lincoln continued to insist that this was a war to save the Union, not to free slaves. But by 1862, Lincoln was considering emancipation as a ...

A new Disney+ streaming cartoon aimed at children features elements of Critical Race Theory, identifies one of the White characters in the show as guilty of "white fragility," denounces Abraham ...

The handbill that informed enslaved people in Texas of their freedom was given out June 19, 1865, more than two years after ...

Abraham Lincoln and the History of Freeing Slaves in America by Georges Adéagbo (above) will be on view at President Lincoln’s Cottage in Washington, D.C. through February 15.