On September 22, 1862 President Abraham Lincoln drafted the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which he issued on January 1, 1863, changing the legal status of more than 3.5 million enslaved people in the Confederacy
Historian Alice Baumgartner connects the Civil War with the abolition of slavery in its neighboring country: ‘Lincoln and Juárez’s alliance contributed to strangling the Confederacy’
The United States came close to annexing the whole Mexican territory after the war. This is how they got half of it
Los Angeles-area Huntington Library has acquired the reclusive writer’s literary archive
The vast majority of Americans believe that democracy is in danger, so EL PAÍS travelled to the site of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War in search of answers about how to protect it