Lincoln viewed colonization as a way to free Black Americans — but keep them apart from white society. The experiment ended in disaster, putting an end to plans for colonization. On New Year's Eve ...

While Thanksgiving is usually traced back to a 1621 meal between pilgrims and Native Americans, its origins as a national holiday are much more recent. On Oct. 3, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln ...

Just over 160 years ago on Jan. 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in an attempt to save ...

On 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the legendary Emancipation Proclamation—one of the most significant documents in human history and a ...

This year we again were entertained by the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, while today, shoppers are looking for Black Friday sales. Abraham Lincoln used the power of his office to declare the last ...

President Abraham Lincoln leads the Union in the fight to end the awful bloodshed of the Civil War. The year is 1863. The president had a continuous struggle with the commanders of his army, and the ...

Lincoln's 1863 letter asking the U.S. military to allow his wife's cousins to return peacefully to their plantation fetched $60,000 at The Raab Collection, CNN reports. Lincoln wrote the letter on Dec ...

When it comes to correcting the record about a timeless speech, no retraction is too late. One-hundred and fifty years after Abraham Lincoln passionately appealed for the preservation of the union in ...

More than 150 years after President Abraham Lincoln pleaded with the U.S. military to allow his Confederate cousins to return home, the handwritten letter sold for $60,000. The letter, dated Dec. 21, ...

The National Thanksgiving Proclamation was the first formal proclamation of Thanksgiving in the United States. President George Washington declared Thursday, November 26, 1789, as a day of public ...

David Gergen, a professor of public service at the Harvard Kennedy School where he founded the Center for Public Leadership, and Nancy Koehn, a historian at the Harvard Business School where she holds ...