As a Massachusetts senator during the years leading up to the Civil War, Sumner was a passionate and committed abolitionist.

Biden commemorates Juneteenth in Texas as Trump claims there are ‘too many’ holidays in the U.S. - Biden criticized those who ...

Two era-defining documents that ended slavery and reshaped American history are to be auctioned. The Thirteenth Amendment ...

BLOOMINGTON — Almost 170 years after Abraham Lincoln delivered an impassioned speech against slavery at a political gathering in downtown Bloomington, a new mural within sight of the spot now ...

BLOOMINGTON — The fiery treatise against slavery that Abraham Lincoln delivered in Bloomington years before his presidency has become known as the "Lost Speech" as scholars long searched in vain ...

The bold stage show '3 Summers of Lincoln' — starring Ivan Hernandez, Quentin Earl Darrington, Carmen Cusack and Saycon Sengbloh — will play at La Jolla Playhouse through March 30.

I’m referring to Abraham Lincoln, ... Lincoln opposed slavery with moral clarity. ... from an 1854 speech: “Stand with anybody that stands right.

An 1849 letter written and signed by Abraham Lincoln is the latest acquisition by the Lincoln Memorial Shrine in Redlands, the largest archive in the West of material relating to the 16th president.

In his speech in Cincinnati two years earlier in 1859, he had said, “I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and ...

August 14, 2024. In 1863, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln wrote a scathing letter to his top Union general, who had squandered an opportunity to end the American Civil War.

Abraham Lincoln's arguments against slavery in his first debate with Stephen Douglas in Ottawa, ... Douglas got the initial opening speech — but he would have the crowd.