Jonathan W. White - Author, A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House Before dawn on May 13, 1862, Robert Smalls stealthily took command of a Confederate ...

Abraham Lincoln was ... In August of 1864, Lincoln was on horseback, on his way to the Soldiers’ Home, about three miles northeast of the White House, where he had the use of a stone cottage ...

On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln ... slavery or black rights; it was a war to preserve the Union. His words were not simply aimed at the loyal southern states, however -- most white northerners ...

Looking at a picture of Abraham Lincoln in October 1860 ... its head covered with a black veil.” The experience seemed to partake of the occult. And the results, often ghostly because of ...

Following a surge of protests taking down and challenging statues with racist origins around the world, University of Wisconsin students and organizations have demanded the Abraham Lincoln statue on ...