Lincoln faces an extreme amount of backlash when drafting the Emancipation Proclamation to free slaves in the confederate states, in this clip from Season 1, "A President At War." Passenger boards ...

On Jan. 1, 1863, Lincoln presided at the annual White House New Year’s reception. Later that afternoon, he retired to his study to sign the Emancipation Proclamation. The first time he attempted to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A copy of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Abraham Lincoln is available for public viewing at the Abraham Lincoln ...

U.S. newspapers included war dispatches along with Lincoln’s Sept. 22, 1862, proclamation.

On July 12, 1862, Abraham Lincoln spoke for the first time of his intention to free the slaves, and on January 1, 1863, he signed the Emancipation Proclamation. The intervening six months were likely ...

A century and a half ago, today, one of our nation’s greatest presidents launched this nation on a “new birth of freedom.” On January 1, 1863, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, ...

Weeks after the Civil War's guns fell silent and barely two months after President Abraham Lincoln's assassination, Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas. They had come to enforce the Emancipation ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - On Jan. 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which said all enslaved people in Confederate states were free. The packed sanctuary at the ...

A copy of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Abraham Lincoln is available for public viewing at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum (ALPLM) in Springfield. The historic ...