When President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, he called it “the central act of my administration, and the great event of the 19th century.” Yet critics ...

Abraham Lincoln considered the South’s peculiar ... Five days later he signed the Emancipation Proclamation. In plain prose, it declared the freedom of all slaves in Confederate states that ...

As of 2023, more than half of states across the U.S. recognize Juneteenth as a permanent state holiday, according to the Pew ...

Hegseth has made plain that his goal is to enhance the unbridled “lethality” of American military forces without handcuffs imposed by the law of armed conflict.

Yet history offers a useful morale and ethical guide for us: Abraham Lincoln ... them to the table. Lincoln’s most transformative act — issuing the Emancipation Proclamation — was not ...

Beyond the ethical and spiritual guidance delivered by these three individuals, their actions left moral legacies that have endured the test of time.