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

The 84th Lincoln Pilgrimage, organized by the Gray Arrow District of the California Inland Empire Council of Scouting America, set out from Redlands High School midmorning Saturday and the parade made ...

Lincoln Memorial was added to the National Register ... broke out between the Union and the Confederacy, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in January 1863. This held that all slaves ...

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 ...

The Lincoln Memorial has been the site of historic moments in American civil rights history, and a museum set to open in 2026 will highlight how the memorial became a platform for the First Amendment.

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 ...

By Dylan Deprey No matter the skin color, the geographic location or the religion, there are four words every American has ...

The item in question is the pen Abraham Lincoln used 150 years ago to sign the Emancipation Proclamation. It’s in a small exhibition at the Massachusetts Historical Society, “Forever Free ...

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 ...

Abraham Lincoln is often regarded as one of the greatest U.S. presidents, due to his leadership during the Civil War and his ...

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 ...