The Civil War ended in 1865, exactly 160 years ago. While the societal topic of race and the war’s deeply rooted issues still linger in the modern world in new ways, the bloodshed of battles that were ...

Lincoln was a crony capitalist on economic policy, advocating protectionist tariffs, corporate welfare for railroad ...

An opera about the Underground Railroad has interesting ties to Lexington and one of its greatest basketball players.

Applause rose up from the crowd as William Wells Brown shared his accomplishments with the students who sat in front of him ...

President Lincoln, regarded by historians as one of the best presidents in history, was born on this day in 1809. He is ...

More and more projects across Kentucky are uncovering Black history through historical documents, then putting them online ...

That All Men Are Created Equal” features bills of sale, reward posters and more to explain slavery’s role in the Civil War, ...

A new documentary called, “Underground: Freedom Stories Along the Borderlands,” looks at the growth of abolitionism in ...

Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.

Historians consistently rank Abraham Lincoln as the greatest U.S. president. Without his leadership and political brilliance, ...

Saying it is well past time for Kentucky to remove a slavery exception from its constitution, state Rep. George A. Brown, Jr., D-Lexington, has introduced House ...

While Kentucky does ban slavery, it carves out an exception for one group of people - people convicted of a crime. The ...