SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield will mark Juneteenth — the holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States — by displaying a rare ...

A museum on Thursday unveiled a rare copy of the Emancipation Proclamation, the document signed in 1863 by President Abraham Lincoln declaring the freedom of slaves in the Confederate states. The ...

On Jan. 1, 1863 President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, granting freedom to all enslaved persons ...

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 ...

In 1865, the state Legislature bought a document for $1,000. The document is now priceless, but protecting it from the ravages of time will cost $410,000. Advertisement Article continues below this ad ...

click image for close-up Click here for the text of this historical document. As early as 1849, Abraham Lincoln believed that slaves should be emancipated, advocating a program in which they would be ...

President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was one step along the way to end slavery in the United States. It was an important step, but it was not the only step, nor the last one, scholars ...

When the new year arrived at midnight on Jan. 1, 1863, the quiet of most of the region’s small towns and rural expanses might well have been briefly disturbed by church bells ringing out. But there’s ...

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 ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — On Sept. 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, warning that any state still in open rebellion at the start of the new year would see all ...

Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America, by Allen C. Guelzo (Simon & Schuster, 2004) This work, the first major treatment on the Emancipation Proclamation in 40 years, is ...

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 ...