January 1863: President Lincoln Signs the Emancipation Proclamation, Extending Freedom to Enslaved Persons
This month in 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, one of the most important Presidential acts in American history. Since the enactment of the...
Remembering John Brown
Fifteen months before the American Civil War commenced with the shelling of Fort Sumter in April 1861, one of the most memorable events in the history of the abolitionist movement in the United...
