On Jan. 1, 1863, Lincoln presided at the annual White House New Year’s reception. Later that afternoon, he retired to his study to sign the Emancipation Proclamation. The first time he attempted to ...
New book cites Christianity as the springboard of the American Revolution, with God as the true founding father. Author ...
A new book by UB historian Carole Emberton explores emancipation through the stories of a formerly enslaved woman born in the antebellum South. Pricilla Joyner’s life before and after the Civil War ...
As we experience what seems like a rerun of the Cold War—with Russia once again a hostile dictatorship—it may be hard to remember that Russia and the U.S. were once warmly supportive of each other in ...
Three additional renowned Lincoln authors and historians will highlight the free Benjamin P. Thomas Symposium the following ...
By keeping watch, Black communities transformed a single night of waiting into a living theology of freedom. They taught time to remember. They taught faith to speak history aloud. In a nation that ...
On the steps of what is now the Knott House Museum, where the Emancipation Proclamation was first read in the state of Florida, it was read again – 159 years later. General Edward McCook first read ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. – Carole Emberton, PhD, an associate professor of history in the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences, will discuss her new book, “To Walk About in Freedom: The Long ...
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