JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — By 1862, America had torn itself as massive armies marched across farmlands and old roads, fighting in large-scale battles with casualty rates that continued to shock the country.

It’s time to reinvent Frederick Douglass as the equal of Abraham Lincoln in the 19th-century fight to end slavery in the U.S., according to the historian behind Apple TV’s new “Lincoln’s Dilemma” ...

Wednesday night, the musical "3 Summers of Lincoln" had its world premiere at the La Jolla Playhouse. Co-lyricist and co-choreographer Daniel J. Watts provided insights into the creative process. The ...

Chances are you’ve heard of the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858. The series of debates between Abraham Lincoln and U.S. Senator Stephen Douglas launched Lincoln into national prominence, and he ...

“If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and ...

Stewart McLaurin describes a historic event in Edinburgh in 1846 when US abolitionist Frederick Douglass, a former slave, addressed a public breakfast in his honour Did you know with a Digital ...

President Abraham Lincoln's close and sometimes tumultuous friendship with former slave and abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass is the subject... Lincoln and Douglass Shared Uncommon Bond MICHEL ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Quentin Earl Darrington, left, who portrays Frederick Douglass, and Ivan Hernandez, who plays Abraham Lincoln, of the musical "3 ...

The Battle of Stones River popped up. The location was Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and it happened over several days at the end of 1862. “Fought during miserable weather that saw bitterly cold rain and ...

Wren Williams, a Republican in Virginia’s House of Delegates, has proposed a bill that would regulate and standardize high school-level social studies curriculum in the state. Online, critics quickly ...