WASHINGTON (WHTM) — In September 1862, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Then in January of 1863, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. One of the details that ...

New Year’s Eve is Watch Night. It is Freedom’s Eve. For 160 years, the passage to each new year has marked the anniversary of one of the greatest turning points in American history: the proclamation, ...

Michel Martin speaks with Christopher Bonner, a historian at the University of Maryland, about the significance of the preliminary Emancipation... Lincoln, And The Path To The Emancipation ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) - Juneteenth represents the day freedom arrived in Galveston, Texas for enslaved African men and women. It came two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the ...

The public is invited to Peterboro, in Madison County, on Wednesday for a New Year’s Eve event commemorating the issuing of President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation in 1862. Events run ...

On the night of December 31, 1862, African Americans of all social classes gathered in secret to observe Watch Night, a religious tradition of collective reflection and anticipation of the ...

WASHINGTON — As New Year's Day approached 150 years ago, all eyes were on President Abraham Lincoln in expectation of what he warned 100 days earlier would be coming: his final proclamation declaring ...

(WDBJ) - On September 22nd, 1862, Abraham Lincoln issued a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. It was a threat to free all enslaved people in the Confederacy if those states did not return to the ...

Sept. 22, 2022, marks the 160th anniversary of a pivotal moment in American political and social history; one that is often overlooked, and certainly underestimated. On that day in 1862, President ...

President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863. Watch Night takes place on New Year's Eve and stretches back to the wait before Emancipation became law in the United ...