Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.

Seward had been stabbed in the face and neck with a Bowie knife by another conspirator, Lewis Powell. In a near miraculous ...

US President Abraham Lincoln was shot in the head by stage actor John Wilkes Booth while attending a play at Ford’s Theatre ...

Fast-forward to the beginning of the 1850s, and slavery had been extinguished ... whose name comes from an 1858 address by William Seward, interprets the Civil War as unavoidable due to the ...

A fervent abolitionist, in 1838 he offered shelter in his home to a runaway slave, the future intellectual ... Auburn house provided by her friend William Seward, a passionate abolitionist and ...

The entire structure a slave jail was ... and newspapers such as William Lloyd Garrison’s militant Liberator, the first in the United States to call for immediate abolition.

In brief, the book is a detailed examination of how Lincoln managed an executive branch made up of his erstwhile political opponents–William Seward ... his opposition to slavery was sufficiently ...

Richland County has an interesting link to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln -- and the death of his killer, John Wilkes Booth.