No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1 Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation declared, "all persons held as slaves within any States, or designated part ...

Object title: Half-copy of the 1916 Proclamation, taken from the printing press in Liberty Hall and given to the police. It ended up in the Chief Secretary’s Office Registered Papers ...

A copy of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address ... including the only version of the Emancipation Proclamation that Lincoln signed. The document was one of 48 copies created for the 1864 Great Central ...

In this lesson, students explore the realities of life after the Emancipation Proclamation and learn about courageous individuals who fought against the inequalities African Americans experienced.

In recognition of Black History Month, Clark Curtis will be taking a closer look at some of the people, places, and events that have helped mold the story of Washington’ s wealth of history and her ...

On January 31, 1865, the U.S. Congress passed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which ended slavery in the United ...

This week we celebrate Juneteenth. On June 19th, 1865 Maj. General Gordon Granger and his Union soldiers arrived in Galveston ...

He began with “Five score years ago,” an echo of the Gettysburg Address to the date of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. It had been 100 years since Lincoln freed the slaves, he noted ...