At the central ceremony in Birkenau, freed hostage Agam Berger will perform with Daniel Weiss, a resident of Kibbutz Be'eri whose parents were murdered on October 7. Berger will play a 130-year ...

American schoolchildren are taught that the slaves in confederate states were freed when Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862. However, while that may be true ...

Gant's story. He was born in 1821 and spent his early life as a slave on a Virginia tobacco plantation called Woodburn Estates. He married Anna Maria Hughes in 1843 and freed in 1845 after ...

Congressman Daniel Webster helped put President Trump’s budget blueprint over the top in a tight vote Thursday in the U.S. House of Representatives. The House approved the Trump budget plan in a ...

Beckles said that reparations movements, in which slaves demanded government compensation for their abuses, existed as early as there were freed slaves. However, Beckles said the postcolonial ...

Daniel Bley, Webster Bank’s chief risk officer, will retire after 14 years with the lender, the company said last week. Bley will continue in the CRO role until Webster finds a replacement, after ...

A historic South Carolina church that has existed since the Civil War was recently bestowed the honor of a historical marker recognizing its roots of ministering to freed slaves. First Zion Missionary ...

In an exclusive interview with Lib er tar i an ism .org, Daniel Hannan talked about the importance of free trade, the Legislature’s role in checks and balances between State branches, and the ...

Funding for local projects in Polk County has been delayed due to Congress passing a short-term budget resolution. Local officials say they will seek alternative funding sources to continue their ...

On the morning of March 31st, Daniel Leon Simmons left the world as we know it. He is survived by his wife, Pat; his son, Ethan; his mother, Joan; and his brothers, David and Duncan. While the ...

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Like the seasons, political parties come and go. In 1847, Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress as a Whig. By 1854 that party had ceased to exist.