Today is Juneteenth. The most recently recognized federal holiday (formalized in 2021 as Juneteenth National Independence Day), Juneteenth recognizes the freeing of enslaved people in Texas at the end ...

On New Year’s Eve, Black churches in New Orleans and across the country will continue the tradition known as Watch Night or ...

New book cites Christianity as the springboard of the American Revolution, with God as the true founding father. Author ...

On Jan. 1, 1863, Lincoln presided at the annual White House New Year’s reception. Later that afternoon, he retired to his study to sign the Emancipation Proclamation. The first time he attempted to ...

All are welcome to join the Handel and Haydn Society (H+H) and Museum of African American History Boston I Nantucket for a free performance to celebrate freedom and honor the progress for human rights ...

The Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, which recently produced a chart categorizing hard work, self-reliance, and the nuclear family as attributes of ...

Washingtons's proclamation of neutrality.--Healing of nations, by Fitzsimons.--Peace to the world, by Gouverneur Morrison.--The first Thanksgiving.--Declaration of Independence.--Signers of the ...