According to the request made in your behalf, the original draft of the Emancipation Proclamation ... Your obedient servant, A. LINCOLN. The Proclamation and letter are to be purchased for the ...

Abraham Lincoln was an American hero — but a flawed one ... led thousands of Union troops into Galveston, Texas, to enforce ...

President Abraham Lincoln issued his famous "Proclamation of Thanksgiving" on Oct. 3, 1863, with the Civil War still raging. As is our annual tradition, we reproduce the text below in ...

Abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room log cabin in Hardin County ... In September 1862, Lincoln announced his preliminary emancipation proclamation. The President warned that if the rebellion did not ...

First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the ...

Based on the Emancipation Proclamation alone, “there is no comparison to make between former Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Trump,” said Daina Ramey Berry, dean of humanities and fine arts at ...

Abraham Lincoln, born poor and largely self-educated ... Within a year, though, he decided on an Emancipation Proclamation that would liberate most of the enslaved people in the Confederacy; the ...

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 ...