DC was only part of the U.S. to pay off slave owners for freeing enslaves persons they held.

The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin. As a student of leadership, I found it one of the most insightful books on the theme. Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

D.C. Emancipation Day celebrations continue, with a parade, festival, and concert commemorating the end of slavery in the ...

President Abraham Lin­coln signs a bill ending slavery in Washington, D.C. Approximately nine months later he would issue the ...

For the first time, the Oklahoma Trail of Tears Association marked the graves of Cherokee Freedmen who survived the Trail of ...

The Emancipation Proclamation, laid down by the president ... with nose enhancement. Walter Huston in Abraham Lincoln (1930) wears a startling amount of lipstick in the early scenes, and later ...

In the Christian tradition, Easter is the incarnation of that hope, in the witness of the life, death and resurrection of ...

Denver’s annual two-day Juneteenth Music Festival will be scaled back to a single day this year because of declining sponsorship.