Juneteenth, the day commemorating the end of slavery in the United States, is not a state holiday in Florida. Here's what to ...

What is Juneteenth? President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation freed enslaved people in the Confederate States of America as of Jan. 1, 1863.

After establishing Thanksgiving as a national holiday in 1864, Lincoln wrote, “To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come ...

After establishing Thanksgiving as a national holiday in 1864, Lincoln wrote, “To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others ...

After establishing Thanksgiving as a national holiday in 1864, Lincoln wrote, “To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come ...

Done at the City of Washington, this 20th day of October, in the year of our Lord, 1864, and of the independence of the United States the eighty-ninth. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By the President: ...

President LINCOLN has issued a proclamation setting apart the last Thursday in November for a day of thanksgiving and praise to Almighty God for, among other things, vouchsafing to us many and ...

Abraham Lincoln, in a stirring call to spiritual unity amid the carnage of the Civil War, issued his emotionally powerful Thanksgiving proclamation on this day in history, Oct. 3, 1863.