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.

(WDBJ) - On September 22nd, 1862, Abraham Lincoln issued a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. It was a threat to free all enslaved people in the Confederacy if those states did not return to the ...

Kwame Nkrumah, the leader of Ghana from its independence in 1957 to his overthrow in a military coup in 1966, was in his day as important as Nelson Mandela of South Africa and Mohandas Gandhi of India ...

Cal Johnson, born into slavery, became Knoxville's first Black millionaire after emancipation. Tennessee celebrates Emancipation Day on August 8, marking the day many enslaved Tennesseans learned of ...

In “Born Equal,” Akhil Reed Amar paints a sprawling portrait of 19th-century America in thrall to its founding moment. By Jeff Shesol Is our vaunted system really safe from the shameless likes of ...

Billionaire hedge fund manager Ken Griffin added two of the most iconic artifacts in American history to his growing collection of rare documents — spending a combined $18.1 million for items signed ...

Ken Griffin, known for purchasing a Stegosaurus skeleton and a rare copy of the U.S. Constitution, recently acquired Abraham Lincoln's handwritten copy of the 13th Amendment. Griffin purchased the ...

Billionaire hedge funder and art collector Kenneth Griffin has revealed that he was the buyer of record-breaking copies of the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment, both signed by ...

It's time to celebrate Juneteenth, the country's youngest federal holiday. Juneteenth marks the events of June 19, 1865, in Galveston, Texas when the last Black slaves of the Confederacy were ordered ...

Just seven years after they learned of their liberation, a group of formerly enslaved Black Texans banded together in 1872 to purchase Emancipation Park in Houston. The 10-acre park was meant to serve ...

Juneteenth commemorates the emancipation of enslaved people in Texas on June 19, 1865. It became a federal holiday in 2021, signed into law by President Biden. Celebrations originated in 1866 and ...