IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This is a United States Postal ...
Billionaire hedge fund manager Ken Griffin added two of the most iconic artifacts in American history to his growing collection of rare documents — spending a combined $18.1 million for items signed ...
MICHIGAN, USA — Thursday is Juneteenth, a holiday marking the day the last enslaved people in the United States, located in Galveston, Texas, learned they were free. The news came on June 19, ...
Cal Johnson, born into slavery, became Knoxville's first Black millionaire after emancipation. Tennessee celebrates Emancipation Day on August 8, marking the day many enslaved Tennesseans learned of ...