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

"It's really important to me that my children know the history of the country." As the country commemorated Juneteenth, thousands of people lined up outside the National Archives in Washington on ...

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 ...

The Emancipation Proclamation will be permanently displayed next to the Constitution, Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence in D.C., the National Archives announced Saturday. During a ...

The National Archives and Records Administration announced on Saturday that it would permanently display the Emancipation Proclamation in its rotunda. President Abraham Lincoln’s order to free all the ...

WASHINGTON (WHTM) — In September 1862, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Then in January of 1863, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. One of the details that ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- Pages from the original Emancipation Proclamation will be on display at a Chicago museum for four days during Presidents' Day Weekend. The fragile pages of the document, which was ...

The National Archives plans to place the Emancipation Proclamation on permanent public display in its Rotunda alongside the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, the ...