A US Senator wants to replace Andrew Jackson, who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation, on the front of the $20 ...

I think we need a more nuanced view, one that recognizes that ... author of “The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery.” “Even after issuing the Emancipation Proclamation ...

McClelland then addresses the rematch between the two men in the presidential election of 1860. As he takes us on the campaign trail, we clearly see the bitter rivalry, particularly from Douglas, who ...

George Washington didn’t chop down the cherry tree, Abraham Lincoln did not free the slaves (or even end slavery in this country), and Jim ... According to this view, Hoover’s dogmatic commitment to ...

This was the very reason why President Abraham Lincoln said, “I have no purpose ... Lincoln was not simply expressing his personal disinclination to end slavery, but reflecting a view of the ...

But Downs is a rarity among historians, particularly so among those with his anti-Southern point of view. He recognizes the wisdom of ... beyond the limits of the United States.’” Abraham Lincoln was ...

The tiny central Illinois village, where Lincoln accidentally spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, perhaps did as much to ...