Most days, a little-known 19 th-century portrait of Abraham Lincoln by Solomon Nunes Carvalho (1815-1895) is tucked away in archival storage at Brandeis University’s Rose Art Museum. But on ...

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While many well-respected artists have painted Lincoln, few works were created during his lifetime, and even fewer by the hand of a black artist. While this portrait by Bowser is an extraordinary ...

Rather, it declared free only those slaves living in states not under Union control. William Seward, Lincoln's secretary of state, commented, "We show our symapthy with slavery by emancipating ...

A volume in the UPK series “Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace”, Lincoln, Seward, and U.S. Foreign Relations in the Civil War Era, which unfortunately lacks maps, is a valuable read for anyone ...