MOUNT VERNON, Va. (Gray DC) - Saturday is the 250th anniversary of King George III Proclamation of Rebellion declaring the 13 colonies traitors to the Crown. To celebrate the anniversary of the Aug.

Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among ...

For the observation of the federal holiday, we hear from Nathan Connolly, an associate professor of history at Johns Hopkins University, about the Emancipation Proclamation, and NPR staff read it.

Jesup’s proclamation was one of the earliest instances in American history in which emancipation was wielded as a military tool. It marked the first federal recognition that Black freedom could serve ...

A: I think Dunmore's Proclamation raised the specter of slave rebellion not merely in Virginia but elsewhere in British America. Here, it seemed to enslaved people, was a concrete offer of freedom in ...

Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among ...

Today, the country observes Juneteenth. The holiday marks the arrival of U.S. Army troops in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865. The troops told some of the last enslaved Americans that they were free ...

Today, the country observes Juneteenth. The holiday marks the arrival of U.S. Army troops in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865. The troops told some of the last enslaved Americans that they were free ...

For Juneteenth on Morning Edition, professor Nathan Connolly reflects on the promise of the Emancipation Proclamation, and NPR staff voice the... Observing Juneteenth with a reading of the ...