Slavery Abolition

How Mount Rushmore came to beThere is more to Mount Rushmore’s 60-foot heads of presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln than meets the eye. Find out what makes this american national treasure so special.Although renamed in popular culture as "Presidents’ Day," the federal holiday we celebrate the…

Abraham Lincoln repeatedly tops polls as our greatest and most revered president. But few people thought so on March 4, 1865, when he took the oath of office for the second time. On that day, America was still mired in the terrible war that the Republicans had been determined to…

By Steven SpearieThe Associated PressSun., Feb. 16, 2020timer4 min. readSPRINGFIELD, Ill. - In an aptly named permanent exhibit of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum called The Whispering Gallery, visitors are visually and audibly confronted with political cartoons and newspapers from the 1860s against the backdrop of a soundtrack critical of…

For other uses, see Susan B. Anthony (disambiguation). Susan Brownell Anthony (February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions…

I didn’t get in on the observances here of Lincoln’s birthday earlier in the week, though Scott had the beat well covered. But perhaps one last glance back. From time to time people ask me what I regard as the best Lincoln biography, and without hesitation I still always pick…

Advertisement More than two centuries after the birth of Frederick Douglass, few men or women have come close to achieving his skills as both an orator and an agent of change. "Why we should remember him is because of what he represents to us even today. His ability to not…

JEFFERSON DIDN’T SET out to write the first campaign book. He first published “Notes,” a sprawling work that surveyed his new nation and defended it to its European critics, in 1785, more than a decade before he ran for president.Presidential candidates in this period did not campaign in public, an…

The fact that the Ford’s Theatre Museum has several weapons on display should not be surprising. After all, it’s a site where a presidential assassination took place. What is perhaps surprising is that some of the weapons aren’t associated with the “main event” for which Ford’s Theatre is famous: John…

Here is your open thread for February 12, 2020. Today is the 211th birthday of Charles Darwin. Cotton Mather was born on February 12, 1663, in Boston. He wrote more than 400 books, not all of which were completely bonkers. Mather’s ideas about spiritual warfare and its corporeal manifestations were…

For his grandson with the same name, see John Quincy Adams II. "Quincy Adams" redirects here. For the rapid transit train station in Quincy, Massachusetts, see Quincy Adams (MBTA station). John Quincy Adams 6th President of the United States In office March 4, 1825 – March 4, 1829 Vice President John…