Abraham Lincoln was voted the best US president in a survey where nearly 100 historians and biographers rated past commanders in chief on 10 leadership qualities. Notable best presidents included George Washington at No. 2, John F. Kennedy at No. Who was the best president George Washington or Abraham Lincoln? […]
Harriet Tubman is called “The Moses of Her People” because like Moses she helped people escape from slavery. Harriet is well known as a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad. Using a network of abolitionists and free people of color, she guided hundreds of slaves to freedom in the North and […]
Frederick Douglass was a formerly enslaved man who became a prominent activist, author and public speaker. He became a leader in the abolitionist movement, which sought to end the practice of slavery, before and during the Civil War. What are 3 things Frederick Douglass did? 10 Facts About Frederick Douglass […]
Born enslaved in Dorchester County, Maryland, Tubman was beaten and whipped by her various masters as a child. Early in life, she suffered a traumatic head wound when an irate overseer threw a heavy metal weight intending to hit another enslaved person, but hit her instead. What happened to Harriet […]
Every year, the many visitors to Mount Rushmore National Memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakota draw inspiration from the colossal portraits of four outstanding presidents of the United States: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt. Is Abraham Lincoln part of Mount Rushmore? Mount Rushmore pays […]
Lincoln turned the conversation back before it even started. “Let us believe,” he said, “as in the days of our youth, that Washington was spotless. It makes human nature better to believe that one human being was perfect—that human perfection is possible.” Did Abraham Lincoln know George Washington? George Washington […]
Abraham Lincoln has taken the highest ranking in each survey and George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Theodore Roosevelt have always ranked in the top five while James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, and Franklin Pierce have been ranked at the bottom of all four surveys. Why is Abraham Lincoln the greatest […]
Mr Lincoln hated Thomas Jefferson as a man—rather as a politician, and yet the highest compliment I ever heard or read of his was paid to the memory of Jefferson. A recent New York Times op-ed explored the sources of Lincoln’s feelings and came to the conclusion: “Lincoln was Jefferson’s […]
Carroll died on November 14, 1832, at age 95, in Baltimore. He holds the distinction of being the oldest lived Founding Father. He had outlived four of the first six U.S. presidents. Who was the last surviving Founding Father? James Madison has the opportunity to be known as the last […]
Women rarely made the dangerous journey alone, but Tubman, with her husband’s blessing, set out by herself. Harriet Tubman led hundreds of slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad. most common “liberty line” of the Underground Railroad, which cut inland through Delaware along the Choptank River. How did Harriet Tubman […]
Of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, only two would become president: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. (They and one other, Elbridge Gerry, would serve as vice president.) Of the 39 signers of the Constitution of the United States, only two would become president: George Washington and James […]
A freedman or freedwoman is a formerly enslaved person who has been released from slavery, usually by legal means. Historically, enslaved people were freed by manumission (granted freedom by their captor-owners), emancipation (granted freedom as part of a larger group), or self-purchase. Who was the person who freed the slaves? […]
Congress required former Confederate state to ratify the amendment as a condition for re-admission into the Union. On December 18, the 13th Amendment was officially adopted into the Constitution—246 years after the first shipload of captive Africans landed at Jamestown, Virginia, and were bought as enslaved workers. Why did it […]
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address begins with the words, “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” A score is another way of saying 20, so Lincoln was referring to […]
As of 2018, the countries with the most slaves were: India (8 million), China (3.86 million), Pakistan (3.19 million), North Korea (2.64 million), Nigeria (1.39 million), Indonesia (1.22 million), Democratic Republic of the Congo (1 million), Russia (794,000) and the Philippines (784,000). Which countries still have slavery 2020? Top 10 […]