The friendship that developed, during perhaps the most turbulent time in American History, between two apparently dissimilar ...

The cover of 'Nance: A Girl of Color and Her Lawyer Abraham Lincoln,' a new book by Kevin Orlin Johnson. It details the case ...

A year before President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, a Washington, D.C. institution took root on humble ground. “Howard University Hospital started in 1862," said hospital ...

But Gettysburg has also been a symbol of America’s commitments to freedom and democracy, thanks to the immortal speech that Abraham Lincoln delivered there on Nov. 19, 1863. Trump’s comments ...

NBCUniversal and Macy’s said they struck a new pact that will keep the retailer’s popular Thanksgiving Day Parade on the media conglomerate’s properties through 2034, a nod to the growing ...

Fremont issued an emancipation proclamation in St. Louis, freeing slaves in Missouri, a bold move that predated President Abraham Lincoln’s more famous Emancipation Proclamation by two years.