His thoughts turned to Frederick Douglass, the writer and orator who crystallized abolitionism with his life story of emancipation and education. That vision, and President Abraham Lincoln’s prospects ...

The 1875 town house where civil rights pioneer Frederick ... to President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, advocating for the enlistment of Black soldiers. Later in life, Douglass became ...

Nigel Hamilton illuminates the conflict through a joint examination of its commanders.

Frederick Douglass would continue his active involvement to better the lives of African Americans. He conferred with Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War and recruited northern blacks for the ...

Throughout history, despite what it confronted, America has had leaders emerge whose words and actions helped shape its ...

For instance, downstairs in the visitor centre one can view — through windows — one of the great American historical relics: The catafalque of Abraham Lincoln. When Lincoln was shot in 1865 at ...

Fraughton sculpted four American presidents — Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy ... to celebrated Anasazi and Frederick Douglass statues. Many of his pieces have a “Michelangelo-esque kind of energy,” ...

Vandals splashed red paint and scrawled graffiti on a well-known statue of Abraham Lincoln in Lincoln Park — for at least the second time in two years. No arrests have been made since the ...

Onlookers at the Abraham Lincoln statue in Lincoln Park which was defaced with red paint overnight and discovered Monday. Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times Share Vandals splashed red paint and ...

CHICAGO (CBS) — An Abraham Lincoln statue was vandalized in the Lincoln Park neighborhood on Monday. The statue of Lincoln was covered in red spray paint in the 1700 block of North Stockton ...