June 19 marks Juneteenth National Independence Day. Learn more about the history here.

John William Templeton, an African American historian from California, has been researching abolitionism and Abraham Lincoln and has come to know almost everything there is to know about the ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with the executive director of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum about an original copy of Emancipation Proclamation it is displaying for Juneteenth.

The National Archives plans to place the Emancipation Proclamation on permanent public display in its Rotunda alongside the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, the ...

ALBANY — The only surviving copy of the Emancipation Proclamation bearing President Abraham Lincoln's handwriting will tour the state this fall as the centerpiece of "The First Step to Freedom," an ...

click image for close-up Click here for the text of this historical document. As early as 1849, Abraham Lincoln believed that slaves should be emancipated, advocating a program in which they would be ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) — An annual parade in downtown Charleston celebrates the historical meaning behind the first day of each year. Emancipation Day commemorates the anniversary of the Emancipation ...

Today, the country observes Juneteenth. The holiday marks the arrival of U.S. Army troops in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865. The troops told some of the last enslaved Americans that they were free ...

Today is Juneteenth, long a celebration for Black Americans and now a federal holiday. Broadly speaking, it commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, and that history was made possible in ...