John Ganson died in 1874 and was buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo. His obituary stated that “He was a War Democrat, ...

The Senate had passed the Amendment on April 8, 1864. Ganson, who was born in Le Roy, represented the 30th Congressional ...

Granting clemency would affirm our commitments to justice and human rights and to a vision of dignity and fairness for all.” ...

The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...

History is more than what we learn in textbooks—it’s a living, breathing narrative that continues to shape the present. There ...

A discussion of the development of civil rights law in the US through the enactment of key legislation and formation of the ...

An Abraham Lincoln historian who’s working on a documentary about the Great Emancipator’s Funeral Train will give a talk to ...

Historians agree that  the earliest record of the West African chattel, commonly called slaves, arrived in America in 1619.

As of 2023, more than half of states across the U.S. recognize Juneteenth as a permanent state holiday, according to the Pew ...

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