Today, Jan. 1, 2013, is the 150th anniversary of Lincoln’s official signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, a date and courageous political act that mark one of America’s most significant historical ...

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

“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 ...

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

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 ...

Michel Martin speaks with Christopher Bonner, a historian at the University of Maryland, about the significance of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which was issued on Sept. 22, 1862. We're ...

Part of the reason why Kathryn Benjamin Golden, assistant professor of Africana studies at the University of Delaware, is a historian is because she views history as a change-making tool. Juneteenth, ...

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 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 ...

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