SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) - A Juneteenth celebration at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum will feature a rare copy of the Emancipation Proclamation. The document, which features the ...

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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 ...

A signed copy of the Emancipation Proclamation soon will be on display in Springfield. The ALPLM’s copy of the executive order signed by Lincoln and then-U.S. Secretary of State William Seward is one ...

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

Today is Juneteenth, long a celebration for Black Americans and now a federal holiday. Broadly speaking, it commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, and that history was made possible in ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with the executive director of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum about an original copy of... A rare signed copy of the Emancipation Proclamation is ...