Lincoln faces an extreme amount of backlash when drafting the Emancipation Proclamation to free slaves in the confederate states, in this clip from Season 1, "A President At War." Trump calls on Ilhan ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A copy of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Abraham Lincoln is available for public viewing at the Abraham Lincoln ...

Explore how the Emancipation Proclamation reshaped the meaning of the Civil War, and how the Battle of Chickamauga became one ...

September 26 A reorganized troupe of Fisk Jubilee Singers sets out for its first tour under the direction of George White and ...

A century and a half ago, today, one of our nation’s greatest presidents launched this nation on a “new birth of freedom.” On January 1, 1863, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, ...

On July 12, 1862, Abraham Lincoln spoke for the first time of his intention to free the slaves, and on January 1, 1863, he signed the Emancipation Proclamation. The intervening six months were likely ...

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum will mark Juneteenth with a series of public programs that include a rare display of the Emancipation Proclamation, theatrical performances, free ...

Weeks after the Civil War's guns fell silent and barely two months after President Abraham Lincoln's assassination, Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas. They had come to enforce the Emancipation ...

John William Templeton, an African American historian from California, has been researching abolitionism and Abraham Lincoln and has come to know almost everything there is to know about the ...

A copy of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Abraham Lincoln is available for public viewing at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum (ALPLM) in Springfield. The historic ...