Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing slave on January 1, 1863. Lincoln was born February 12, 1809, in Kentucky and assassinated April 15, 1865, Washington DC. Signature. Illustration ...

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Meaning from that point on the formerly enslaved people of Texas were finally free leading to the idea of what many now call ...

U.S. Army Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's 1864 "March to the Sea" was not a "total war" campaign against the Confederacy as ...

The world presented in Stewart’s play therefore, is not one run by men, but one run by women – from which one woman rises up to take more authority than a 1947 audience would expect. Figure ...

President Donald Trump speaks from Emancipation Hall as House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), from left, his wife Kelly Johnson, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA), and his wife Jennifer ...

The legacy of slavery and the century of legalized exclusion and oppression that followed continues to affect Black Americans ...

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump walked hand-in-hand into Emancipation Hall before Trump reviewed the troops, marking his first honors ceremony during his second term as president.