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Today in history: The Civil War ends

April 9, 2015 By Special to People’s World

The death toll is estimated at perhaps as many as 750,000, out of a total U.S. population of only 30 million at the time.

Today in labor history: Lincoln tells advisors about Emancipation Proclamation

July 22, 2014 By Teresa Albano

In the wake of the Emancipation Proclamation victory came a great momentum that led to the Union's war victory, 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments and Reconstruction.

South Sudan facing famine crisis

April 11, 2014 By Brian McAfee

Over 3.7 million people in this new African nation of 11 million are at severe risk of starvation, and a UN official coordinating humanitarian aid in South Sudan says "we're in a race against time."

Today in history: President Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address

November 19, 2013 By Special to People’s World

One of the best-known speeches in American history, it was delivered by Lincoln in the midst of the Civil War, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the...

Lincoln, Obama and the sweep of history

February 26, 2013 By Jarvis Tyner

With a stroke of a pen the Union government outlawed the enslavement of 4 million people. The truth was that the war was not going well for the North and they had to pass the Emancipation...