Slavery Abolition

After his father was assassinated, Robert Todd Lincoln kept an insanity file on his mother that he later used to have her committed to an asylum. The legacy of President Abraham Lincoln is one that has inspired boundless national admiration and pride. Yet b…

In 1838, Abraham Lincoln gave a speech to the Young Men’s Lyceum in Springfield, Illinois. The subject was citizenship and the preservation of America’s political institutions. The backdrop was the threat posed to those institutions by the evil of slavery. Li…

by Walter G. MossWalter G. Moss is a professor emeritus of history at Eastern Michigan University a Contributing Editor of HNN. For a list of his recent books and online publications click here. His most recent book is In the Face of Fear: Laughing All the Wa…

Before noon on Friday, as he was leaving the Atlanta Regional Commissions State of the Region breakfast at the Georgia World Congress Center, in downtown Atlanta, Bem Joiner, a local entrepreneur, saw an elderly white couple walking so jovial towards us, as h…

Key point: The Union may have won the battle, but it didn't feel like a victory. In the summer of 1864, the Civil War had been raging for three years. Already, well over eight hundred thousand Americans had been killed or wounded. Citizens in both the North …

HISTORY OPTIONAL ONLINE COURSE CUM TEST SERIES- 2021 FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM 1. Topic wise Comprehensive Study Material Topic wise study material for History Optional (in PDF format)Access to the solution of previous years history optional…

For years, rumors swirled in Cape May that Harriet Tubman once worked as a cook on the island at the tip of New Jerseys tide-washed peninsula, sauteing bacon at the storied Congress Hall hotel and stowing away money for her work as a conductor on the Undergro…

At the age of nineteen, Abraham Lincoln made the grand tour of the West, as it existed then and as his means allowed. He traveled as a flatboat deckhand down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. Feeling the power of the great river, and observing the armada …

Ivanka Trump has dismissed speculation over the identity of the whistleblower who sparked the impeachment inquiry into her father, even though the president himself has called for the person to be named.  Donald Trump has repeatedly urged the media to public…

Ivanka Trump has defended her father as the Ukraine scandal intensifies: AP Ivanka Trump has dismissed speculation over the identity of the whistleblower who sparked the impeachment inquiry into her father, even though the president himself has called for th…