An 1861 job-reference letter from Abraham Lincoln on behalf of a young Black friend and valet provides a glimpse of an ...

In a quiet testament to his friend, Abraham Linc personally handled William Johnson's wages and paid for his coffin.

Abraham Lincoln's 1861 handwritten letter recommending his Black friend William Johnson for a job is now on display at the ...

A rare Lincoln letter at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum shows how race shaped early White House life and presidential power.

On Nov. 19, 1863, Abraham Lincoln made one of the greatest speeches in history, at the Gettysburg battlefield in Pennsylvania. One line from the Gettysburg Address is the pinnacle description of what ...

DALLAS - A Texas museum hopes a document found in its archives turns out to be an authentic government copy of Abraham Lincoln's eloquent letter consoling a mother thought to have lost five sons in ...

William Johnson, because ironically, his dark complexion caused freed Black White House staffers with lighter skin to shun him ...