The Juneteenth holiday has been celebrated amongst Black communities for over one-and-a-half centuries. The holiday commemorates June 19, 1865, the day that the end of slavery was announced in ...

The origin of the Juneteenth celebrations marking the end of slavery goes back to an order issued as Union troops arrived in ...

An Abraham Lincoln–signed copy of the 13th Amendment, as well as a copy of the Emacipation Proclamation, are heading to ...

Someone will get a chance to own two literal pieces of American history. The post Documents that Lincoln signed to end ...

Two era-defining documents that ended slavery and reshaped American history are to be auctioned. The Thirteenth Amendment ...

Juneteenth is often described as the day “slavery ended in Texas,” but the truth behind it tells a deeper, more sobering ...

The Chairman of the Emancipation Society had received, through the American Minister, the following reply on behalf of President LINCOLN to an address which was adopted at a meeting held in London ...

With the Emancipation Proclamation turning 150 years old this month, “Melissa Harris Perry” revisited the document and what it meant, for the rebellious south, for President Abraham Lincoln ...

I often wonder what meal was served to Abraham Lincoln and his entourage at the David Wills House in Gettysburg, on the evening of Nov. 18, 1863, the night before he dedicated the new national ...

Abraham Lincoln ... changes that resulted from Lincoln’s "Lost Speech." “What happened in Bloomington 169 years ago today on Thursday, May 29, 1856, ignited Lincoln’s march to the presidency and ...