On this day in history, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. On Jan. 1, 1863, Lincoln declared that all enslaved people in states rebelling against the Union “are, and ...

Lincoln visited Massachusetts. In September 1848, while still a young Congressman, Abe Lincoln visited New Bedford and spent ...

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died. He was 100 years old and had spent roughly 22 months in hospice care.