The film recounts the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln, focusing on his assassination at Ford's Theater on April 14, 1865, ...
The cover of 'Nance: A Girl of Color and Her Lawyer Abraham Lincoln,' a new book by Kevin Orlin Johnson. It details the case ...
By Courtney Mussen The fruit of a collaboration between Goodwin House in Baileys Crossroads and the Concerned Citizens ...
In his book Fear No Pharaoh, Richard Kreitner examines the reactions of six Jewish Americans to slavery and the Civil War.
A new law, buried inside an otherwise obscure piece of federal legislation, permits the Washington, D.C., City Council to establish a commission that will give “reparations” to descendants of enslaved ...
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Tom Hanks has two Oscars, seven Primetime Emmys, four Golden Globes, two SAG Awards, and the blood of a presidential legend.
Abraham Lincoln argued Nance Legins-Costley's case before the Illinois Supreme Court. Indentured servitude, the equivalency of slavery, was allowed in Illinois. Legins-Costley lived for many years ...
Voting was a right limited to men or property owners before the passage of the 19th amendment to the U.S. constitution in ...
At the Illinois Holocaust Museum, soon to undergo a major renovation, a heart-tugging special exhibit in Skokie explores the ...
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Cal Thomas: Reparations are a bad idea
A new law, buried inside an otherwise obscure piece of federal legislation, permits the Washington, D.C., City Council to ...