Short for “June Nineteenth,” the holiday marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to take control of the ...

Explore the American Civil War's history, causes like slavery and states' rights, key events including Gettysburg and ...

Stacker examined historical documentation to explore Juneteenth's history and significance and to confute the most egregious ...

In May 2025, the Minnesota Prisoner Workers Organizing Committee held a significant rally at the state capitol, demanding an end to forced labor in t ...

Juneteenth memorialized the official emancipation of enslaved people in Texas on June 19, 1865 when General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas announcing the Emancipation Proclamation. The ...

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After a tense debate that included criticism from the opposition, 338 MPs out of 400 officially voted to establish the American-Ukrainian Reconstruction Investment Fund that will be filled equally by ...

The congressional copy of the 13th Amendment — signed by President ... curator of African-American history at the Virginia Historical Society. "When this came about, it was as if these people ...

Historians describe the creation of schools and focus on education — for both blacks and whites — in the South during Reconstruction ... that marked you as an American citizen; and that ...

This is another reference to slavery, which was ended by the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment. The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in ...