click image for close-up Click here for the text ... The decree also left room for a plan of compensated emancipation. No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1 Lincoln presented ...

U.S. Army Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's 1864 "March to the Sea" was not a "total war" campaign against the Confederacy as ...

In this lesson, students explore the realities of life after the Emancipation Proclamation and learn about courageous individuals who fought against the inequalities African Americans experienced.