WILLIAMSTOWN — On Sept. 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, warning that any state still in open rebellion at the start of the new year would see all ...

Sadie Barnette, FBI Drawing series and Homegood Centerpiece from 2022. John Quincy Adams Ward's "The Freedman" from 1863. Jeffrey Meris, The Block Is Hot -- The Resurrection at Williams College Museum ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF — We know how important it is for you to feel connected to your community. That's why we want to let you know about a big celebration happening over at the Frist Art Museum ...

One of about two dozen surviving original copies of the Emancipation Proclamation will go on display at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum for Juneteenth Independence Day. The ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – The nation’s longest-running Emancipation Day Parade will march through the streets of downtown Charleston on New Year’s Day. The Emancipation Proclamation issued by ...

On the steps of what is now the Knott House Museum, where the Emancipation Proclamation was first read in the state of Florida, it was read again – 159 years later. General Edward McCook first read ...

Student artists ages 13-18 are invited to submit work to an art show answering the question “What Does Freedom Mean to You?” The National Park Service, in partnership with the National Park Foundation ...

ST. LOUIS – In 1861, Major General John C. Fremont issued an emancipation proclamation in St. Louis, freeing slaves in ...