While Thanksgiving is usually traced back to a 1621 meal between pilgrims and Native Americans, its origins as a national holiday are much more recent. On Oct. 3, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln ...
Abraham Lincoln, in a stirring call to spiritual unity amid the carnage of the Civil War, issued his emotionally powerful Thanksgiving proclamation on this day in history, Oct. 3, 1863. The president ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Late in 1862, the Union League of ...
Lincoln viewed colonization as a way to free Black Americans — but keep them apart from white society. The experiment ended in disaster, putting an end to plans for colonization. On New Year's Eve ...
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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 ...
This year we again were entertained by the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, while today, shoppers are looking for Black Friday sales. Abraham Lincoln used the power of his office to declare the last ...
More than 150 years after President Abraham Lincoln pleaded with the U.S. military to allow his Confederate cousins to return home, the handwritten letter sold for $60,000. The letter, dated Dec. 21, ...
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