A copy of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Abraham Lincoln is available for public viewing at the Abraham ...

How Abraham Lincoln and a magazine illustrator elevated Christmas to a national holiday, and used it to win the Civil War.

Juneteenth is now a national holiday. How did it come to pass? The United States government is catching up with Black people who have been commemorating the end of slavery in the United States for ...

President Donald Trump’s 2025 Thanksgiving proclamation called for national unity, gratitude to God and reflection on American history, a formal message that differed in tone from the politically ...