A new statue of Abraham Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation will be unveiled at the African American Civil War ...

Billionaire hedge fund manager Ken Griffin added two of the most iconic artifacts in American history to his growing collection of rare documents — spending a combined $18.1 million for items signed ...

"This collection arose from a symposium on the Emancipation Proclamation held at the Pennsylvania State University in April 2007 as part of the Steven and Janice Brose Distinguished Lecture Series ...

Strazdes, Diana, "American paintings and sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art," New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Carnegie Museum of Art, 1992. Catalogue of Painting ...

For the 150-year anniversary of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, Smithsonian magazine recreated the historic tableau, reuniting an early draft with Lincoln's inkwell and pen for the first ...

(The Root) — Most of the time, the original Emancipation Proclamation is put away for safekeeping, but for a few days each year, the handwritten document that formally established the freedom of all ...

Much has been said in the past two days about the motivations behind President Obama’s new immigration move, though consensus has begun to form around describing it as a political move over a moral ...

A Q&A with Zaakir Tameez about Charles Sumner and the antislavery movement. By Jamelle Bouie President Trump made no statement about the federal holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the ...