The Battle of Stones River popped up. The location was Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and it happened over several days at the end of 1862. “Fought during miserable weather that saw bitterly cold rain and ...

Chances are you’ve heard of the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858. The series of debates between Abraham Lincoln and U.S. Senator Stephen Douglas launched Lincoln into national prominence, and he ...

President Abraham Lincoln's close and sometimes tumultuous friendship with former slave and abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass is the subject... Lincoln and Douglass Shared Uncommon Bond MICHEL ...

Quentin Earl Darrington, left, who portrays Frederick Douglass, and Ivan Hernandez, who plays Abraham Lincoln, of the musical "3 Summers of Lincoln," making its world premiere at La Jolla Playhouse.

MARIETTA — President Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass will speak at 5:30 p.m. Friday in a Juneteenth National Independence Day program at Marietta College. Living Historian Michael Crutcher will ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Panel discussion in which experts compare, contrast, and contextualize the relationships between President Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass ...

Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass are American icons whose life stories continue to inspire us. Lincoln was born poor and had less than a year of formal schooling. Yet he became the 16th ...

Doris Kearns Goodwin, the famous historian and biographer of Abraham Lincoln, has said that only Jesus has been written about more than our 16th president over the past 165 years. As a result, ...

The perennial tension between principle and pragmatism in politics frames this engaging account of two Civil War Era icons. Historian Oakes (Slavery and Freedom) charts the course by which Douglass ...

“If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and ...

In 1862, Abraham Lincoln held a forum to consider a potential solution to the country's conflict: What if all free Black people left the U.S. and settled in Central America? The president's ...