Horace Greeley & the Emancipation Proclamation
Kirsti Kenneth of the Newseum in Washington, DC discusses Horace Greeley's August 20, 1862 letter to President Abraham Lincoln in the New York Daily Tribune and its import in the debate over Emancipation. Learn more at www.civilwar.org/emancipationproclamation »
Related Resources
- Emancipation Proclamation Home
- "For a Vast Future Also:" Lincoln and the Millennium
- "Thenceforward and Forever Free:" The Emancipation Proclamation and Its Effect on the War
- The National Archives Emancipation Proclamation
- Our Documents, View the Actual Document (NARA)
- Exhibit on the Emancipation Proclamation (LOC)
- Lincoln at 200: Emancipation Proclamation
Recommended Books
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
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