One of about two dozen surviving original copies of the Emancipation Proclamation will go on display at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum for Juneteenth Independence Day. The ...

As the country commemorated Juneteenth, thousands of people lined up outside the National Archives in Washington on Monday to see rarely exhibited original versions of the Emancipation Proclamation ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - To mark the 150th Anniversary of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Urban League of Philadelphia showed off an original copy of the document during a special ...

A Detroit-area museum plans to display the original Emancipation Proclamation around the clock over a three-day period free of charge. It's the first time the historic document will visit Michigan ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

An enlarged photo copy of Union Army Gen. Gordon Granger's announcement that slave had been freed is displayed next to an original copy of the order in the Hall of Heroes at Fair Park's Hall of State.

"It's really important to me that my children know the history of the country." As the country commemorated Juneteenth, thousands of people lined up outside the National Archives in Washington on ...