Leading historians aim to restore and grow respect for enslaved people and their descendants on Juneteenth, commemorating the ...

Each June, communities across the United States gather to celebrate Juneteenth, a blend of "June" and "nineteenth”, as the ...

Juneteenth, the nation's newest federal holiday, is celebrated by Americans on June 19 to commemorate the end of slavery in ...

On June 19, 1865, two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, Union soldiers rode through ...

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 ...

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

Will a Copy of Lincoln’s 13th Amendment Ending Slavery Set an ... The 1863 proclamation originally signed by Lincoln and issued during the Civil War declared that all enslaved people in the ...

The Civil War ended in 1865 with the defeat of the Confederacy and the abolition of slavery through the 13th Amendment.

As Garrett Epps puts it in Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America, “for the first time in American history, the [Fourteenth ...

This week marks the 160th anniversary of the passage of the 13th Amendment. ... In fact, it’s hard to see how the Civil War and the abolition of slavery did not remake the United States.

Three Reconstruction Amendments were passed and ratified after the Civil War, which ended in 1865. The Thirteenth Amendment is the least cited in case law by the judiciary.