After buying his own liberty, the Marylander covertly assisted conductors on the Underground Railroad, including Harriet ...

Abraham Lincoln was an American hero — but a flawed one. As we celebrate him, let’s also acknowledge some ugly The post 5 ...

Lincoln’s longing for a “normal” life made him “so simple a man,” as Conwell put it. But what made him “one of the greatest ...

Abraham Lincoln demonstrated beyond a reasonable doubt that our Founding Fathers believed slavery was a moral wrong.

Tamarac Democratic Sen. Rosalind Osgood inquired as to whether the bill would still permit teachers to display photos of Harriet Tubman, who helped countless slaves escape captivity and was the first ...

Abraham Lincoln served as Commander in Chief during the nation’s darkest hour, guiding the Union through the Civil War with ...

History permeates Leavenworth, Kansas more than most small towns in the United States, and that is represented in Queenie's ...

The Trump Doctrine is the sort of reckless misadventure that paves the road to ruin—as our own history has proven.

James Rodden, identified by the Observer last year as the operator of an account that routinely posted hateful statements, ...

William Henry Seward and his wife, Frances, shared antislavery convictions, but his career imposed great stress on their ...

A culture clash driven by finances and Old World alignments had the Big Apple contemplating leaving the Union. The Civil War ...

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