As early as 1849, Abraham Lincoln ... a plan of compensated emancipation. No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1 Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation.

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 ...

Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln ... to issue the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that all slaves "henceforward shall be free." Lincoln was reelected ...

Other speeches and writings evince Lincoln ... at the bloody battle of Antietam provided cover for Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. But there was another factor in his decision.

In addition to being president, Abraham Lincoln was the post-master of ... In September 1862, Lincoln announced his preliminary emancipation proclamation. The President warned that if the rebellion ...

The item in question is the pen Abraham Lincoln used 150 years ago to sign the Emancipation Proclamation. It’s in a small exhibition at the Massachusetts Historical Society, “Forever Free ...

That All Men Are Created Equal” features bills of sale, reward posters and more to explain slavery’s role in the Civil War, ...

The nation’s longest-running parade made a return in honor of the Emancipation Proclamation, which was declared Jan. 1, 1863 by President Abraham Lincoln. This liberated African Americans from ...