Mounted cavalry troops lined the streets from the president-elect’s hotel to the Capitol, and sharpshooters stood on rooftops ...
Hannibal Hamlin served as VP during Abraham Lincoln's first term and notably urged the president to sign the Emancipation ...
Civil War drummer boy Willie Johnston received the Medal of Honor on Sept. 16, 1863, two months after his 13th birthday.
Wayne L. Scott has been portraying President Abraham Lincoln for 26 years, sharing Lincoln's legacy with people across the ...
Watch a first look at 3 Summers of Lincoln, starring Ivan Hernandez, Quentin Earl Darrington, Carmen Cusack, John-Andrew ...
President Abraham Lincoln’s influential legacy in the creation of Idaho will be celebrated on March 5 at the Museum of Idaho.
Fremont issued an emancipation proclamation in St. Louis, freeing slaves in Missouri, a bold move that predated President ...
La Jolla Playhouse’s world premiere musical digs deep into the experiences of Frederick Douglass and the freed Black slaves ...
On July 18, 1863, one of the first all-Black army regiments to serve in the Civil War stormed Fort Wagner in South Carolina.
A year before President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation ... and that Freedmen’s Bureau really helped to usher post-Civil War slaves into freedom," said Dr. Mitchell.