Slavery Abolition

On this date in 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered a brief, sublimely crafted, 272-word oration that historian Garry Wills called nothing less than the words “that remade America.” “Men died that the nation might live,” Civil War scholar James McPherson has sai…

Bettmann via Getty ImagesFormer enslaved people in a Southern town shortly after the end of the Civil War, circa 1865 This essay is an adaptation of the fourth annual Philip Roth Lecture, delivered at the Newark Public Library on November 4, 2019. The lectur…

Top news on Monday morning. As the Winter Session of Parliament commences from today, the opposition parties have rallied on the demand for Jammu and Kashmir Lok Sabha MP Farooq Abdullah, held under PSA, to be allowed to attend Parliament. In an all-party me…

Michael McLean is a PhD candidate in history at Boston College. There’s a fabled moment from the Battle of Fredericksburg, a gruesome Civil War battle that extinguished several thousand lives, when the commander of a rebel army looked down upon the carnage a…

The liberal attacks on Modi for his Kashmir decision are particularly ferocious. (PTI File photo) Abraham Lincoln put an end to slavery in the American South through the historic Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. He had always believed that slavery was agai…

Fed up with a president who compared himself to Jesus, who proposed hanging two political rivals, and then scoffed I dont care about my dignity, the Republican-dominated House of Representatives approved an impeachment resolution, 126 to 47. The year was 18…

Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast Fed up with a president who compared himself to Jesus, who proposed hanging two political rivals, and then scoffed I dont care about my dignity, the Republican-dominated House of Representatives approv…

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…