The secretary of state is a state-level position in 47 of the 50 states. The position does not exist in Alaska, Hawaii and Utah.In Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Virginia, the office is called the ...

The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 ...

The City of Philadelphia will be having a Juneteenth Festival and Parade. All modes of transportation will be impacted ...

Newsweek compared the number of U.S. holidays with the rest of the world after President Donald Trump said there were "too many." ...

On a farm in Simpsonville, Kentucky, Jake Bryan starts each morning the same way his father, grandfather and ...

Dozens of participants marched in Kittery and walked over the Memorial Bridge to Portsmouth's African Burying Ground on ...

United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources, United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons -- Sources Publisher Washington : National Archives and Records ...

We feature a special broadcast marking the Juneteenth federal holiday that commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people ...

Juneteenth has been a federal holiday since 2021, when President Joe Biden signed it into law. The bill passed with near ...

African Americans had likely known themselves to be legally free before General Order No. 3, but acting on this knowledge was ...