In 1863, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln declared the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing enslaved people.

Rare copies of both the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment will be auctioned off in Sotheby’s upcoming books ...

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

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

Theatrical event, free day also scheduledSPRINGFIELD The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum will celebrate ...

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum's special events for Juneteenth will include the display of a signed copy ...

Local events are planned for the June 19 holiday and during the days before and after. Some are free and open to the public, ...

Americans are "not alarmed enough" by President Donald Trump's federalization of the National Guard to secure Los Angeles, ...

Songs of Liberation” will include traditional Black spirituals civil rights songs and more modern protest songs.

While President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation ending slavery went into effect Jan. 1, 1863, it wasn’t until ...

The handbill that informed slaves in Texas of their freedom was given out June 19, 1865, more than two years after President ...

Juneteenth commemorates the events of June 19, 1865, in Galveston, Texas when the last Black slaves of the Confederacy were ...