On Jan. 1, 1863, Lincoln presided at the annual White House New Year's reception. Later that afternoon, he retired to his study to sign the Emancipation Proclamation. The first time he attempted ...

January 1 is one of the most noteworthy days in American history, marking President Abraham Lincoln’s decision to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. Abraham_Lincoln Lincoln altered the course ...

A print based on David Gilmour Blythe’s painting of Lincoln writing the Emancipation Proclamation. In many Americans’ recollections, the Emancipation Proclamation was a landmark piece of ...

It was Jubilee Day, Jan. 1, 1863. In Washington, President Abraham Lincoln was expected to sign the Emancipation Proclamation. It declared that slaves held in the rebel states that had seceded ...

It has a vast collection, but one of its most significant possessions — and the nation’s — is the actual pen that President Abraham Lincoln used to sign the proclamation in 1863. NEEDHAM ...

On Sept. 22, 1862, partly in response to the heavy losses inflicted at the Battle of Antietam, President Abraham Lincoln issued a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, threatening to free all the ...

The pen President Lincoln used to sign the Emancipation Proclamation has been on loan for the past three years. It is now home at the Massachusetts Historical Society ...

On this day, September 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln had a preliminary version of his Emancipation Proclamation delivered to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.

Jan. 1, 2024, marks 161 years since the day the Emancipation Proclamation was announced by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863. At the time, the Civil War had been raging for three years.

In many Americans' recollections, the Emancipation Proclamation was a landmark piece of legislation that officially abolished slavery in the United ...