The title of the record is a reference to a 1857 Frederick Douglass speech made six years before the Emancipation Proclamation. The songs on the record juxtapose grief and joy and despite being ...

National Archives Museum leader Colleen Shogan allegedly removed mentions of negative events that might anger Republicans or upset visitors, reports the Wall Street Journal.

When you think of Abraham Lincoln what comes to mind? I’m sure his Emancipation Proclamation, assassination at Ford’s Theatre, and face on the penny and $5 bill all come to mind. Did you know he was ...

Also: White women didn’t support Nikki Haley, Hillary Clinton, Carly Fiorina, Elizabeth Warren or Amy Klobuchar. The presence of Geraldine Ferraro on the 1984 Democratic ticket “made the South ours,” ...

Democracy, the grand American experiment in which the people ruled through their elected representatives, died on Nov. 6, ...

The trailblazing abolitionist and conductor on the Underground Railroad will be posthumously commissioned as a one-star ...

Another highlight is a US flag that draped Abraham Lincoln’s coffin during its journey to his final resting place in 1865. A ...

Photos and artifacts are on display at the Bullock Texas State History Museum, chronicling the story of the collaborative ...

Here's what to know about executive orders, their limitations, which president signed the most and how recent commanders in ...

Robert Shaplen’s “Free Love” delves into the adultery case against Henry Ward Beecher, an abolitionist preacher and a presidential hopeful.