A black and white photograph of President Abraham Lincoln, from early 1864. The “Picturing Lincoln” initiative by the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum means more than 1,000 high ...

Professor Franklin talked about his 50-year career teaching about Lincoln and African American history. He spoke about stripping away the baggage and sentiment surrounding Lincoln and finding the man.

He often greeted them “with open arms and an outstretched hand,” Jonathan W. White wrote in a recent essay on Lincoln entitled, “Black Lives Certainly Mattered to Abraham Lincoln.” ...

In 1863, Abraham Lincoln enacted a plan to resettle 453 freed Black Americans to a Haitian island. Lincoln viewed colonization as a way to free Black Americans — but keep them apart from white ...

Donald Trump is currently facing scrutiny for his controversial history, although he considers his accomplishments to be noteworthy, even likening himself to a renowned former U.S. president.

Retropolis Abraham Lincoln’s disastrous effort to get Black people to leave the U.S. A day before issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln signed a contract to send hundreds of formerly ...

Abraham Lincoln’s failed attempt at forming a Black colony in the Caribbean. A day before issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln signed a contract to send hundreds of former slaves to Haiti.

Donald Trump once again compared himself to President Abraham Lincoln — this time, for their so-called similar treatment of the Black community.. Late night host Jimmy Kimmel poked fun at the ...

That’s a far more apt image of today ... was founded to defeat slavery. Abraham Lincoln, ... Black and white conservatives deride the Democratic Party as a “plantation” that denies ...

Jonathan W. White - Author, A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House Before dawn on May 13, 1862, Robert Smalls stealthily took command of a Confederate ...