View Abraham Lincoln's signed Emancipation Proclamation at ALPLM in Springfield, featured in a special exhibit celebrating ...

This booklet was produced in December 1862 specifically for Union soldiers to read and distribute among African Americans. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and ...

Just seven years after they learned of their liberation, a group of formerly enslaved Black Texans banded together in 1872 to purchase Emancipation Park in Houston. The 10-acre park was meant to serve ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) - From more than 1,000 documents written by President Abraham Lincoln, a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by Lincoln, or Mary Todd Lincoln's wedding dress, the ...