Director of the African American History and Culture Museum Lonnie Bunch looks at the forces that brought about the January 1, 1863 order. Who Was the Real Cleopatra? (03:31) Fact or Fiction? The ...
ST. LOUIS – In 1861, Major General John C. Fremont issued an emancipation proclamation in St. Louis, freeing slaves in ...
Abraham Lincoln changed the course of history not through brute assertion of power but by wrestling with its limits.
The cover of 'Nance: A Girl of Color and Her Lawyer Abraham Lincoln,' a new book by Kevin Orlin Johnson. It details the case of Nance Legins-Costley, who was freed from indentured servitude by an ...
A year before President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, a Washington, D.C. institution took root on humble ground. “Howard University Hospital started in 1862," said hospital ...