Before Salmon P. Chase was Secretary of the Treasury and Supreme Court chief justice, he was a Cincinnati attorney defending fugitive slave cases.

Civil War America, a small number of Jewish slaveowners defended the practice. Other prominent Jews joined with abolitionists ...

Like the seasons, political parties come and go. In 1847, Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress as a Whig. By 1854 that ...

The process of learning one’s past is usually like peeling an onion. If you are dismissing the work of our ancestors, you ...

I did not get taught a lot of Black history from school,” the marine biology student at Florida International University, 27, ...

McClelland then addresses the rematch between the two men in the presidential election of 1860. As he takes us on the campaign trail, we clearly see the bitter rivalry, particularly from Douglas, who ...

The tiny central Illinois village, where Lincoln accidentally spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, perhaps did as much to ...

The village where Abraham Lincoln came of age is deteriorating. Lincoln lived in New Salem, Illinois, as a young man from ...