Frederick Douglass called the martyred president "emphatically the black man's president” as well as “the first who rose above the prejudice of his times an

Many African Americans of the Civil War era felt a personal connection to Abraham Lincoln. For the first time in their lives, an occupant of the White House see

The Black History of the White House presents the untold history, racial politics, and shifting significance of the White House as experienced by African Americ

Readers of American history and books on Abraham Lincoln will appreciate what Los Angeles Review of Books deems an "accessible book" that "puts a human face —

Beginning with the argument that the Emancipation Proclamation did not actually free African American slaves, this dissenting view of Lincoln's greatness survey