Lincoln's statement ... On March 6, 1863, the Secretary of War was informed that "seven hundred and fifty blacks who were waiting for an opportunity to join the Union Army had been rescued ...

President Biden’s longtime aide rallied scores of nations to defend Ukraine, but then became a villain to the many critics of U.S. support for Israel’s war in Gaza.

William Seward, Lincoln's secretary of state ... It also tied the issue of slavery directly to the war.

Frederick Douglass saw that they “comprehended the genius of this war before [white Americans] did” 42 and that when Lincoln’s Secretary of State Henry Seward said that the war would not ...