Zaakir Tameez is the author of “Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation,” to be released on June 3.

The penny, which costs more to make than it's worth, will be going away. That's a shocking reversal of government policy. Usually, the government doesn't stop producing anything that's overpriced or ...

The simple narrative today of the southern secession in 1860 and 1861 is that the southern states believed that the ...

A mural celebrating 169 years since Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous "lost speech" in Bloomington was unveiled Thursday ...

"What happened in Bloomington 169 years ago ... ignited Lincoln's march to the presidency and eventually led to emancipation, ...

The day is known as Juneteenth, a blend of the words "June" and "nineteenth." It refers to June 19, 1865 — the day when news of emancipation finally reached Texas, the last place to learn about the ...

Back in 1860, the ideas that had emboldened the war were debated in Santa Cruz, through fiery editorials in local and San ...

The fiery treatise against slavery that Abraham Lincoln delivered in Bloomington years before his presidency has become known as the "Lost Speech" as scholars long searched in vain for a transcript. A ...

Looking for Lincoln Conversations’ next online discussion will cover slavery in Illinois and its eventual end, largely at the hands of the courts. While Illinois joined the United States in 1818 as a ...

Republican National Convention provided the young, burgeoning Chicago with perhaps its first real national recognition.

Among the Black figures who changed history in America, Frederick Douglass emerged as a beacon of defiance and intellect. It’s […] ...

In 1862, Abraham Lincoln held a forum to consider a potential ... “3 Summers of Lincoln” centers on a topic “Hamilton” left out: slavery. And numerous scenes peek into closed-door meetings ...