On Jan. 1, 1863 President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, granting freedom to all enslaved persons ...

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

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. There’s more to celebrate on Jan. 1 than the start of a new year. It’s ...

On 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the legendary Emancipation Proclamation—one of the most significant documents in human history and a ...

The Emancipation Association of Montgomery held its 160th annual Emancipation Proclamation Celebration to kick off 2026.

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 ...

United States National Archives in Washington, DC with a huge flag hanging on its columns.(Getty Images/iStockphoto/OGphoto) “The people to whom this order was addressed, were the last group of ...

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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.

Picture the Emancipation Proclamation, the Civil War-era executive order that changed the legal status of enslaved African Americans in secessionist states, and you might imagine a large broadside, ...

On Sunday, a historic bell from the Civil War era rang in the New Year at the steps of D.C.’s Lincoln Memorial and plans were announced for a new 65-bell tower and community amphitheater in Southeast.

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