On April 11, 1865, the president delivered a speech on Reconstruction from a White House window. In the speech, Lincoln declared that the time had come to give voting rights to African-Americans ...

In spring 1864, President Abraham Lincoln invited a guest to one of his private rooms in the White House — the room he often napped and read his Bible in. His visitor was Caroline Johnson, a … ...

President Abraham Lincoln first met with Frederick Douglass in August 1863. (Library of Congress) Today it seems unthinkable but in August 1863 — the summer of Gettysburg and Vicksburg and the ...

Excerpted from "Lincoln's Last Speech: Wartime Reconstruction and the Crisis of Reunion". Through the cool evening mist of Tuesday, April 11, 1865, darkness gave way to light. The White House was ...

A month before his inauguration on March 4, 1861, Abraham Lincoln had a speech problem. Soon the President-elect, a man with only two years of federal service behind him, would take the oath of office ...

This segment was rebroadcast on March 4, 2021. For that audio, click here. On March 4, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln stood at the U.S. Capitol to deliver his second inaugural address. Lincoln ...

Whenever there is a time of crisis and uncertainty in America, one thing is certain: Abraham Lincoln is going to get quoted—a lot. In the wake of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and ...

On August 22, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln addressed the Union soldiers of the 166th Ohio Regiment as they passed through Washington, D.C. It was three years into the Civil War and during this ...

His inauguration can give us hope. January 18, 2021. President Abraham Lincoln stands under cover at the center of the Capitol steps during his ... White House must go further on new ...

Poor Mary Lincoln, after losing Willie, consulted Spiritualists who claimed to commune with the dead, and held séances in the White House, which her husband seems to have attended.