The public announcement and implementation of Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was fraught with political and policy implications. Lincoln had decided to issue the proclamation—effectively ...
In 1858, after winning the Republican nomination for the Senate against incumbent Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln gave a speech that has stood the test of time because of the truth it laid plain ...
America's conflicted history over its treatment of immigrants and what President Lincoln might say about today's immigration ...
In our era, they might seem like performative gestures for the president. A quiet visit with the wife of a wounded soldier. A conversation with a battlefield nurse or a kitchen worker. A hand extended ...
MOUNT PLEASANT, Iowa (KCRG) - Stories from the 1800s are still being told in Our Town Mount Pleasant. “We could put it all in context and be storytellers and that’s what we like to do,” said Elizabeth ...
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Abraham Lincoln letter seeking job for Black friend and valet now on display at presidential museum
An 1861 job-reference letter from Abraham Lincoln on behalf of a young Black friend and valet provides a glimpse of an ...
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