The Abolitionists didn’t ask for the Civil War. They even tried to avoid one to preserve the Union. In 1856 they conceded to allowing slavery in the existing slave states but nowhere else.

Jamelle Bouie, a columnist at the New York Times, has recently been drawing a lot of parallels between what’s going on in the ...

H ere we go again. Every couple of months, another abortion abolitionist with a cult following on social media decides it’s time to burn women at the stake — only this time it’s pro-life women.

Historians, veterans, and Rockford residents gathered at Veterans Memorial Hall to learn about the history of local abolitionists and the challenges faced by abolitionists during the Civil War.

Forgotten Civil War Memorial found in Alton apartment building ...

A new collection of primary source documents, "The 1863 Stibbs Family Civil War Era Letters," is the third set of letters ...

Foner refers to the Civil War, as had abolitionists at the time, as the “Second American Revolution.” For Black people, one might say it was the first.

During the Civil War, abolitionists used pumpkins as the sign of moral farming and Northern virtue. Updated November 28, 2024. 5 min. Summary. Baking pumpkins. (Petula Dvorak/The Washington Post) ...

Momentum has been building in Illinois to research the state’s extensive Underground Railroad sites and decide how to ...

The American Civil War is a pivotal and ugly moment in American history, but it's more misunderstood than you would think. We're breaking down some myths about Lincoln, women soldiers, racist ...

John Brown’s Day of Reckoning The abolitionist’s bloody raid on a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry 150 years ago set the stage for the Civil War ...