The film recounts the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln, focusing on his assassination at Ford's Theater on April 14, 1865, ...

Hannibal Hamlin served as VP during Abraham Lincoln's first term and notably urged the president to sign the Emancipation ...

Facing the crisis of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln drew on religious feeling to help galvanize the North—and to bolster his ...

In an attempt to support this transition, the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, commonly referred to as the ...

Abraham Jackson was struck by a train as he headed toward a Pensacola Emancipation Day event. Robin Reshard's new production retells his final hours.

With President Donald Trump set to deliver a speech to Congress on March 4, Talmage Boston tells readers what to expect.

PEORIA – An original print of the Declaration of Independence, a Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington and an original ...

In essence, Juneteenth is a second Independence Day. After 2½ bloody years of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln signed ...

Lubbock will mark the upcoming Juneteenth holiday with a day-long celebration Saturday. Check out the full lineup of events.

The roots of Howard University Hospital in Washington, D.C. run deep in the city, starting as a seed planted during Lincoln's ...

The statue commemorates Colonel Robert A Smith, a Scot who was struck down in Kentucky during the US civil war.

ST. LOUIS – In 1861, Major General John C. Fremont issued an emancipation proclamation in St. Louis, freeing slaves in ...