LINCOLN. There is no sentence or word in his Message, or in any utterance of his since he made the Proclamation ... would have had no right to proclaim emancipation. So long, and so long only ...

On November 6, 1860 Abraham ... declared free, Lincoln continued to insist that this was a war to save the Union, not to free slaves. But by 1862, Lincoln was considering emancipation as a ...

Former U.S. Navy aviator Owen Corpin will host of the Thirteenth Annual Peterboro Watch Night commemoration at 10 a.m.

Donald Trump wants to gut the 14th Amendment, undoing a process of American citizenship that began with Lincoln and the ...

In addition to being president, Abraham ... powers, Lincoln suspended habeas corpus, which prevents the government from holding citizens without trial. Between fifteen and twenty thousand citizens ...

Abraham Lincoln is widely considered one of the United States’ best presidents. He authored the Emancipation Proclamation, ended the Civil War by defeating the Confederacy, and was instrumental ...

President Abraham Lincoln declared an annual national holiday of Thanksgiving in 1863. Most remarkably, Lincoln made his proclamation at the height of the bloodiest war in American history.

Abraham Lincoln’s assassination ... Until Maryland enacted emancipation just five months before Lincoln’s death, this line was like an electrified fence standing between four million people ...

While the script does include grandiose recitations of the Emancipation Proclamation and Gettysburg Address, Bakula also ...