On May 30, Abraham Lincoln signed a law awarding prize money to Smalls for delivering the Planter and its cargo to federal authorities. The influential Black minister Henry McNeal Turner called ...

The claim was endorsed by no less an eminence than Harold Holzer, chairman of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial ... re going to spy him in a black speck in a distant background, at least get ...

Major Acts In practical terms, the achievements of Abraham Lincoln are mammoth, yet simple to describe: he confronted the secession of the South and the dissolution of the Union with all the political ...

(WCIA) — Two artifacts will be on display at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library ... “Freedom to the Slave.” In the ...

Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln remains a tragic historical figure, gunned down by an assassin just days after winning the nation's bloodiest war. A Republican ...