In a last-ditch effort to prevent Southern states from seceding on the eve of Abraham Lincoln’s presidential ... it would have become the 13th Amendment to the Constitution — which we know ...

The congressional copy of the 13th Amendment — signed by President Abraham Lincoln, 37 senators and 111 congressmen — will be on display Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 ...

the 13th Amendment passed the House by a vote of 119 to 56. The next day Lincoln signed the Joint Resolution, something not ...

Lincoln was the only Oscar-winning movie ever to dramatize the passage of a constitutional amendment — the 13th, which ended slavery. Director Steven Spielberg gave all the credit for the ...

It’s obviously hard to know what Abraham Lincoln would think today about parts of the 13th Amendment that was broadly designed to end slavery. He was assassinated just four months after Congress ...

On January 31, 1865, Congress passed the 13th Amendment ... The next day, President Abraham Lincoln signed the proposed amendment as a sign of his support. Unfortunately, it would take until ...

This week marks the 160th anniversary of the passage of the 13th Amendment. Congress ... desire to protect the legacy of Abraham Lincoln’s presidency, and the tendency to view the Constitution ...

The Thirteenth Amendment is important because of its simplicity: Slavery of all forms for free persons was abolished. Of course, convicted prisoners were excepted. President Abraham Lincoln issued ...

The 13th Amendment, ratified in the aftermath of the Civil War, came after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862, which declared "that all persons held as slaves ...