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 ...

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 ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield will mark Juneteenth — the holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States — by displaying a rare ...

"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 ...

Just over 160 years ago on Jan. 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in an attempt to save ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) -Over 150 years ago, on January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation ...

Harvard economist Roland Fryer explains how examining plantation records and market prices deepens our understanding of a devastating chapter in American history. Juneteenth joined Independence Day as ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — On Sept. 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, warning that any state still in open rebellion at the start of the new year would see all ...

United States National Archives in Washington, DC with a huge flag hanging on its columns.(Getty Images/iStockphoto/OGphoto) “The people to whom this order was addressed, were the last group of ...

By keeping watch, Black communities transformed a single night of waiting into a living theology of freedom. They taught time to remember. They taught faith to speak history aloud. In a nation that ...