In the final days before President-elect Donald Trump takes the oath of office on Monday, thousands of activists from the ...

Lincoln Memorial was added to the National Register ... broke out between the Union and the Confederacy, Lincoln issued the ...

In one of the most famous speeches of the 20th Century, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., before a crowd ...

The decree also left room for a plan of compensated emancipation. No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1 Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation declared ...

Redlands’ Lincoln Memorial Shrine will celebrate President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday with its annual open house and the 93rd Watchorn Lincoln Dinner. The free open house, featuring live music, Civil ...

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum will celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy on Monday, Jan. 20, by ...

But by 1862, Lincoln was considering emancipation as a necessary step toward winning the war. The South was using enslaved people to aid the war effort. Black men and women were forced to build ...

You'll still contend with crowds, but it will be worth it. – Marisa Méndez, Senior Editor Although the Lincoln Memorial is just one of the District's many monuments, the larger-than-life Honest ...

states that in an interview the Committee had with President LINCOLN on Friday, he informed them that, as to his "Emancipation Proclamation," be had acted from the belief that it would effect good ...

On this day in history, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Roy Wood Jr. Turns Down Andy Cohen’s Tequila Shot During CNN’s New Year’s Eve Special: “The Last ...

When President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, he called it “the central act of my administration, and the great event of the 19th century.” Yet critics ...

He issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation in churches on Sept. 22, 1862. The National Museum of […] WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — On this day in history, President Abraham Lincoln ...