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 ...
Loretta Carter Hanes was researching at a library in her hometown of Washington, D.C., when she came across a piece of local history that surprised her. She learned that in April 1862, President ...
A version of this story first ran in the Statesman Journal in 2021. On June 19, 1865, enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, received the news about President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation ...
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