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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...

Lincoln: principles and politics

February 8, 2013 By Tim Wheeler

In this 150th anniversary year of the Emancipation Proclamation, we are fortunate to have Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals to help us understand Abraham Lincoln.

Today in labor history: Radical Reconstruction and 40 acres and a mule

February 5, 2013 By Special to People’s World

In 1866, Thaddeus Stevens offered an amendment to a bill requiring 40 acre plots be parceled out to former slaves from both confiscated and public land in the former slave South.