As early as 1849, Abraham Lincoln believed that ... No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1 Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation declared, "all persons ...

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

On Jan. 1, 1863, Lincoln declared that all enslaved people in states rebelling against the Union “are, and henceforward shall be free.” He issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation in ...

On the one hand, Trump wants to eliminate everything that has anything to do with equity and diversity, including any ...

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 considered the South’s peculiar ... Five days later he signed the Emancipation Proclamation. In plain prose, it declared the freedom of all slaves in Confederate states that ...

As of 2023, more than half of states across the U.S. recognize Juneteenth as a permanent state holiday, according to the Pew ...

Presidents Day, a federal holiday honoring U.S. presidents, is Feb. 17. What to know about the day, and presidents Washington ...

Hegseth has made plain that his goal is to enhance the unbridled “lethality” of American military forces without handcuffs imposed by the law of armed conflict.

Yet history offers a useful morale and ethical guide for us: Abraham Lincoln ... them to the table. Lincoln’s most transformative act — issuing the Emancipation Proclamation — was not ...

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