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 ...

Legal minds will have their opportunity to shape the future policies of our land, and I pray they have the grace and wisdom ...

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 ...

After the Civil War, the 13th Amendment ended slavery. ... in the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments and in the legislation that was passed to enforce them,” says Foner.

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 ...

But the Fourteenth Amendment was created to provide federal protection against state power; and since the Civil War, the Court has held (through a process called "incorporation") that nearly all ...

During the Civil War, almost 200,000 African American men served in the Union Army and Navy. ... January 31, 1865 – Congress passes the 13th Amendment. February 1, ...