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Juneteenth: What to Know About the Freedom Holiday
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 2 days agoTheWrap offers a brief history lesson on Freedom Day, which commemorates the nation's full abolition of slavery and became a federal holiday just three...
Edward Robert McClelland: The Illinois debate that made Abraham Lincoln a national figure
Chicago Tribune· 5 days agoHere, McClelland takes us to Ottawa, Illinois, for the famed first senatorial debate between Lincoln...
ByGone Muncie: The memorable Emancipation Day celebration of 1898
The Star Press via Yahoo News· 4 days agoAmericans at the end of the Civil War. In the late 19th century, some Black communities in the North...
Today in History: Abraham Lincoln accepts Illinois Republican Party’s nomination for the Senate
Chicago Tribune· 5 days agoOn June 16, 1858, accepting the Illinois Republican Party’s nomination for the U.S. Senate, Abraham ...
Editorial: The history, and hypocrisy, of the upside-down American flag
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 7 days agoAn upside-down U.S. flag outside Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s home is the latest...
‘The Indispensable Right’ Review: Why We Need Free Speech
The Wall Street Journal· 7 days ago—arguably the greatest enemy of free speech ever to be president—prosecutions for seditious speech...
Opinion | In 1858, Lincoln made a mistake. President Biden, don’t make the same one.
Washington Post· 2 days agoPresident Biden’s recent speech in Normandy, highlighting the choice the world faces between...
Juneteenth Anchorage gets set for weekend celebration
Alaska News Source· 7 days agoAnother packed schedule of performances, speeches and fun is scheduled for Juneteenth Anchorage’s...
Juneteenth celebrates just one of the United States’ 20 emancipation days – and the history of how...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 6 days agoKnown as Juneteenth in Texas, Emancipation Days symbolized America’s attempt to free the enslaved...
Belle-Clair Fairgrounds was once site of Union Army camp during the Civil War
Belleville News-Democrat via Yahoo News· 16 hours agoCamp Koerner — named after Gustave Koerner, a politician and close friend of Abraham Lincoln — was...