Abraham Lincoln is responsible for one of the boldest and most far-reaching uses of executive powers in American history by his announcement that enslaved people would soon be "forever free" on ...

Such men “burn for distinction; and, if possible, will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves, or enslaving ... address, Lincoln hopes that “we remained free to the last ...

As early as 1849, Abraham ... did not free all slaves in the United States. Rather, it declared free only those slaves living in states not under Union control. William Seward, Lincoln's secretary ...

Donald Trump appeared on Fox News this morning, where, during a characteristically bizarre interview, he suggested Abraham Lincoln could ... it wanted to keep enslaving people.

Abraham Lincoln ... making every slave free, and every free man a voter.” Achieving this would require a change in the views of the crew, and after the meeting, Lincoln intensified his effort ...

In 1863, Abraham Lincoln enacted a plan to resettle 453 freed Black Americans to a Haitian island. Lincoln viewed colonization as a way to free Black Americans — but keep them apart from white ...

In Ottawa, the site of his first debate with Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln made the grand ... be it slave or free. Lincoln began his reply by quoting from an 1854 speech in Peoria.

This proved prophetic with the collapse of the national party systems (the Whigs disappeared altogether) as North and South evolved into separate societies—one based on free labor ... the achievements ...

The arguments run from Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the 1790s to Abraham Lincoln in the 1860s ... the 1836 lynching of Francis McIntosh, a free Black man, in St. Louis as well as a ...