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

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

While the fight to end slavery in the U.S. is winning hearts and minds at movie theaters — on Thursday, “Lincoln,” the movie, earned 12 Academy Award nominations — travelers seeking a more intimate ...

The only surviving draft of the Emancipation Proclamation in President Abraham Lincoln's handwriting will be on view next month in a free exhibition at LIU Post, part of rare public display ...

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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, ...

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Lincoln did not sign the Emancipation Proclaimation into law. On Sept. 22, 1862, Lincoln signed a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, which informed both the Confederacy and the Union of his ...

President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation was one step along the way to end slavery in the United States. It was an important step, but it was not the only step, nor the last one, scholars ...

For the 150th birthday of the Emancipation Proclamation, the National Archives is displaying the original document for members of the public to visit. A'Lelia Bundles, chair and president of the board ...

NEW YORK – A rare original copy of President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation sold Tuesday at a New York auction for more than $2 million. It's the second-highest price ever paid for a ...