Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1863, Abraham Lincoln enacted a plan to resettle 453 freed Black Americans to a Haitian island. Lincoln viewed colonization as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While Thanksgiving is usually traced back to a 1621 meal between pilgrims and Native Americans, its origins as a national holiday ...

Abraham Lincoln, in a stirring call to spiritual unity amid the carnage of the Civil War, issued his emotionally powerful Thanksgiving proclamation on this day in history, Oct. 3, 1863. The president ...

The National Thanksgiving Proclamation was the first formal proclamation of Thanksgiving in the United States. President George Washington declared Thursday, November 26, 1789, as a day of public ...

President Abraham Lincoln leads the Union in the fight to end the awful bloodshed of the Civil War. The year is 1863. The president had a continuous struggle with the commanders of his army, and the ...

President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, one of the most famous speeches in United States history, at the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery on this day in history, Nov.

Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at a Civil War cemetery dedication in 1863. The speech honors fallen soldiers, stressing devotion to freedom and the Union’s survival. “Government of the ...

More than 150 years after President Abraham Lincoln pleaded with the U.S. military to allow his Confederate cousins to return home, the handwritten letter sold for $60,000. The letter, dated Dec. 21, ...

Lincoln's 1863 letter asking the U.S. military to allow his wife's cousins to return peacefully to their plantation fetched $60,000 at The Raab Collection, CNN reports. Lincoln wrote the letter on Dec ...

While Thanksgiving is usually traced back to a 1621 meal between pilgrims and Native Americans, its origins as a national holiday are much more recent. On Oct. 3, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln ...

The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget ...