Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.

In his inaugural address, delivered on March 4 ... But it was only after Lincoln issued the final Emancipation Proclamation that the federal army would officially accept black soldiers into ...

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In his acceptance speech, Lincoln criticized President Buchanan ... But by 1863, he felt confident enough to issue the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that all slaves "henceforward ...

The item in question is the pen Abraham Lincoln used 150 years ago to sign the Emancipation Proclamation. It’s in a small exhibition at the Massachusetts Historical Society, “Forever Free ...

The nation’s longest-running parade made a return in honor of the Emancipation Proclamation, which was declared Jan. 1, 1863 by President Abraham Lincoln. This liberated African Americans from ...

A copy of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and a signed souvenir version ... including the only version of the Emancipation Proclamation that Lincoln signed. The document was one of 48 copies ...

There were speeches, sermons and shared meals ... Eight months later, on Jan. 1, 1863, President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation that freed the enslaved only in Confederate states ...