On 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the legendary Emancipation Proclamation—one of the most significant documents in human history and a ...

Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among ...

Picture the Emancipation Proclamation, the Civil War-era executive order that changed the legal status of enslaved African Americans in secessionist states, and you might imagine a large broadside, ...

For the observation of the federal holiday, we hear from Nathan Connolly, an associate professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, about the Emancipation Proclamation, and NPR staff read it.

It was a somber start of a new year for those families of 1863. The Civil War was not the early, decisive victory for Federal forces that many thought it would be. The faithful gathered for their ...

The public is invited to Peterboro, in Madison County, on Wednesday for a New Year’s Eve event commemorating the issuing of President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation in 1862. Events run ...

Observing the theme “At the Crossroads of Freedom and Equality: the Emancipation Proclamation and the March on Washington,” the Walter Reed Bethesda community celebrated Black History Month with music ...

Leaders, faith communities and residents will gather Thursday, Jan. 1, 2026, at 11 a.m. to mark Emancipation Day at Grace ...