On library shelves the multi-volumed biographies by Nicolay and Hay, Sandburg, and Randall and Current stand cover to cover with *Lincoln Never Smoked a Cigarette* and *Abraham Lincoln on the Coming ...

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 ...

Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. Pres. Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation ...

Free slaves, often referred to as “freedmen,” organized the first of what became the annual celebration of "Jubilee Day" on ...

The sixth annual event will be held Saturday, June 14, 2025, beginning at 2 p.m.

Juneteenth Freedom Celebration, Poughkeepsie: Celebrate freedom, culture and community with music, dance, food, drinks, games ...

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 ...

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

The rare document could fetch $8 million.

Presidents Day offers a valuable opportunity to revisit Abraham Lincoln’s leadership lessons ... He had telegraphed this approach with his December 1863 “10 Percent Plan” to facilitate ...