EDWIN M. STANTON entered President Lincoln’s Cabinet in January, 1862, on the retirement of Mr. Cameron from the war office. He had previously been a member of the Cabinet of Mr. Buchanan, and ...

On this day 125 years ago the Black National Anthem was first performed, written by James Weldon Johnson and with music ...

The president had long wanted to dismiss the Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton. Stanton was the only member of Johnson's cabinet who supported the Radical Republicans' program for reconstruction.

It was 125 years ago that 500 Jacksonville school children at Edwin M. Stanton School first performed “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing" in celebration of President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday on ...