The emancipation took place on June 19, 1865, two-and-a-half years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation ...

As people across the country celebrated Juneteenth, some question whether or not lawmakers in 1865 actually intended to ...

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The Emancipation Proclamation was signed by President Abraham Lincoln in January 1863, but it wasn't until June 19, 1865, ...

But the most recent federal holiday to be added to the calendar, it turns out, is the most American holiday yet. That holiday ...

President Trump made no statement about the federal holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, other ...

The Juneteenth 2025 celebration vibe has started off across the United States. Here's more about the federal holiday and why ...

Americans observe Juneteenth every June 19, commemorating the day Union soldiers marched into Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, and enforced the Emancipation Proclamation, more than two years after ...

"Modern descriptions of American slavery often paint the North as slavery-free, abolitionist states, but this isn’t true." ...

Juneteenth may mark the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed, but thousands of people in Oklahoma ...