The Lincoln Memorial was built to honour Abraham Lincoln. Test your knowledge of the iconic Lincoln Memorial! Explore its ...

Washington — Former President Joe Biden criticized "ongoing efforts to erase history" during a Juneteenth Celebration Service at a historic African Methodist Episcopal Church in Galveston, Texas — and ...

But let’s look closely at what Salazar highlighted: slavery. Lincoln’s 1863 Emancipation Proclamation was a nation- ennobling achievement.

This Thursday marks 160 years since the origin of Juneteenth. Here's what to know about the holiday and why' it's celebrated.

A photographer's journey to the Gulf Coast city yields 16 images that reveal how its natural beauty melds with its momentous ...

Bristol Black Collective is honoring Juneteenth in Fall River with a brunch, a celebration, and a community reading of Frederick Douglass.

The annual Juneteenth celebration is returning to Staunton this weekend. Juneteenth itself is June 19 every year, but the celebrations have taken place on the weekends before and after the federal ...

A rare broadside of the "Declaration of Independence, July 1776, on view at Seth Kaller Inc., Historic Documents & Legacy ...

The holiday commemorates the Emancipation Proclamation in the U.S. President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed to free enslaved African Americans in secessionist states on Jan. 1, 1863, but enslaved ...

In 1865, Congress passes the 13th Amendment. The war ends, Lincoln is assassinated and the states ratify the amendment later ...

How strange, too, that Abraham Lincoln, who contributed two almost biblical messages to American history in the Gettysburg Address and his Second Inaugural, should have written an Emancipation ...