By Courtney Mussen The fruit of a collaboration between Goodwin House in Baileys Crossroads and the Concerned Citizens ...

Tom Hanks is famous in his own right, but is he related to one of the most famous U.S. presidents, Abraham Lincoln? Here's ...

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The cover of 'Nance: A Girl of Color and Her Lawyer Abraham Lincoln,' a new book by Kevin Orlin Johnson. It details the case ...

The film recounts the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln, focusing on his assassination at Ford's Theater on April 14, 1865, ...

This land loss points to a much larger national problem: the racial wealth gap. The average Black household today has 15 ...

Abraham Jackson was struck by a train as he headed toward a Pensacola Emancipation Day event. Robin Reshard's new production retells his final hours.

Faced with a run that sold out practically before sales opened to the public, La Jolla Playhouse has announced a one-week ...

The Wall Street Journal reports that Donald Trump is about to sign an executive order making English the official language of ...

A year before President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, a Washington, D.C. institution took root on humble ground. “Howard University Hospital started in 1862," said hospital ...

was appointed by Lincoln as the commander of the Union's Department of the West during the early days of the Civil War. Missouri, a slave state, was deeply divided, and Fremont's proclamation ...

Fremont issued an emancipation proclamation in St. Louis, freeing slaves in Missouri, a bold move that predated President Abraham Lincoln’s more famous Emancipation Proclamation by two years.