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

The 155th anniversary of Juneteenth is celebrated in today's Google Doodle. The animated video opens with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation which was read by Major General Gordon Granger on ...

“Black history is our history. This is our time to serve, and this is our time to be a part of our own history. Starting in ...

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 ...

As New Year’s celebrations faded and 2026 began, hundreds across the Lowcountry gathered for a different kind of tradition.

"The Emancipation Proclamation in the South was met largely with derision among white pro-Confederate Southerners," said Andy Talkov, head of program development at the historical society. "It didn't ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with the executive director of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum about an original copy of Emancipation Proclamation it is displaying for Juneteenth.

Many people think of President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation (issued on January 1, 1863) as the official end of slavery. And while that’s not entirely untrue, many African descendants ...

When Amanda Kemp set out to write a play about the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, she saw it as a performance piece, with dancers, music and the actual words of the Emancipation ...