Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield is displaying a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation as part ...

After debuting last year, the National Juneteenth Museum once again hosts its signature annual event, Freedom Vibes, a ...

Juneteenth is a day to commemorate and celebrate the abolition of slavery in the U.S. Here's where you can celebrate around ...

WASHINGTON - For the second year, thousands of people marked Juneteenth by queuing outside the National Archives’s East Side Rotunda Gallery to catch a glimpse of the rarely exhibited Emancipation ...

Juneteenth is America's best-known emancipation celebration—but not its only one.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Civil War reenactors participate in a Juneteenth celebration June 20, 2014, at the Atlanta Cyclorama and Civil War Museum.

After the Emancipation Proclamation was declared, Douglass finally had the go-ahead to begin recruiting the first official regiments of Black soldiers into the Union Army, including his two sons.

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Page one of the original Emancipation Proclamation is seen Jan. 19, 2003, at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Picture the Emancipation Proclamation, the Civil War-era executive order that ...

Allen Guelzo’s book leads us into contested territory. For more than a generation after the Civil War, Francis B. Carpenter’s painting “The Emancipation Proclamation,” portraying Lincoln as the great ...

However, the language of the Proclamation was limited in scope. Although it famously declared that "all persons held as slaves … are, and henceforward shall be free," this didn't apply to all states ...