Abraham Lincoln considered the South’s peculiar ... He promoted the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery throughout the country. And just a few days before his assassination, he endorsed ...

Union cause. But many Republicans in Congress were urging him to take a stand for freedom. In 1862, under his authority as commander in chief, Lincoln drafted and issued the Emancipation Proclamation, ...

Four score and seven years from now, the mystic chords of memory may recall the way Donald Trump compared himself to Abraham ...