Slavery Abolition

A group of African-American scholars has come together to confront the negative view of United States history depicted in The New York Times’ 1619 Project, which, among other falsehoods, holds that a primary reason the colonists declared independence from Great Britain was to protect slavery. The 1619 Project derives its…

Abraham Lincoln, who preserved the Union and ended slavery, is our greatest president while immediate predecessor James Buchanan, who dithered and dallied while war clouds gathered, is the worst of 43 presidents.Ronald Reagan, who ended the Cold War without firing a shot and restored Americans’ confidence in themselves, ranks ninth…

Abraham Lincoln, who preserved the Union and ended slavery, is our greatest president while immediate predecessor James Buchanan, who dithered and dallied while war clouds gathered, is the worst of 43 presidents. Ronald Reagan, who ended the Cold War without firing a shot and restored Americans’ confidence in themselves, ranks…

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…