He did it in “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing,” a poem that later became a song and is now widely called the Black National Anthem. The original manuscript along with other papers by Johnson, who was Black, ...

Join us as we explore the significance of the Gettysburg Address, a cornerstone of American political rhetoric, in our series ...

Introduction: Beyond the Marble FaceA giant man sits in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.With his arms resting on the ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on Sept. 22, 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On Sept. 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued ...

Director of the African American History and Culture Museum Lonnie Bunch looks at the forces that brought about the January 1 ...

As he worked on an adaptation of some of America’s essential documents over the past few years, cartoonist R. Sikoryak says one element of the ongoing American experiment became clear. “I rewatched ...

Weeks after the Civil War's guns fell silent and barely two months after President Abraham Lincoln's assassination, Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas. They had come to enforce the Emancipation ...