Fremont issued an emancipation proclamation in St. Louis, freeing slaves in Missouri, a bold move that predated President Abraham Lincoln’s more famous Emancipation Proclamation by two years. Fremont, ...

Subscribers may view the full text of this article in its original form through TimesMachine. LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. 7. -- The Bonacum trial was resumed this morning. The question of jurisdiction was ...

The birthday of Abraham Lincoln, who served as the 16th President ... on Bloody Island in the Mississippi River near St. Louis. The men called a truce before coming to blows with cavalry broadswords.

Historian Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s quest ... presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush; and Lincoln scholars including Harold Holzer, vice chair of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission ...

There was also a 2013 show of Walker’s work at 10th Street Gallery, in St. Louis, Mo. Born in 1921 in Henderson, Ky., Abraham Lincoln Walker moved in his youth to live with his aunt and uncle in ...