On New Year’s Eve, Black churches in New Orleans and across the country will continue the tradition known as Watch Night or ...

Deborah Willis is familiar with the history of slavery. She co-wrote “Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery,” a collection of photographs spanning from emancipation to the ...

January 1, 2013, marks the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, and in light of the historical milestone, two educators — Deborah Willis, New York University photographic historian, and ...

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 ...

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

At the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) The Emancipation Proclamation and 13th Amendment to the Constitution are preserved in sealed encasements that were ...

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, ...

On June 19, 1865, Union Army Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger stepped onto a balcony in Galveston, Tex. — two months after the Civil War had ended — and announced that more than 250,000 enslaved people in ...

In a new book, historian Harold Holzer explores the carefully calibrated timing and delivery of Lincoln's ultimatum to the rebellious states.... 'Emancipating Lincoln': A Pragmatic Proclamation One ...

“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 ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Deborah Willis: It was important for me to research the idea of how people left America because they did not feel that it was a country that was ...