As of 2023, more than half of states across the U.S. recognize Juneteenth as a permanent state holiday, according to the Pew ...

Abraham Lincoln is often regarded as one of the greatest U.S. presidents, due to his leadership during the Civil War and his ...

A flurry of executive orders have been signed since President Donald Trump took office in January. Is there a limit to them?

Black History Month is celebrated every February, the shortest and one of the coldest months of the year. At first glance it ...

On January 31, 1865, the U.S. Congress passed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which ended slavery in the United ...

When President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, he called it “the central act of my administration, and the great event of the 19th century.” Yet critics ...

Abraham Lincoln was an American hero — but a flawed one. As we celebrate his essential contributions to our country, let's ...

Fourth St., Chillicothe. Jubilee Day marks the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation by President Abraham Lincoln. Rev. Moses Edwards Jr., Pastor of First Baptist Church, will be the speaker.

Conness, a U.S. Senator from California from 1863 to 1869, was a leader in passing the 14th Amendment. And Trump’s attempt to ...

One such example is Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation (1863). It proclaimed the freedom of enslaved people in Confederate states, redefining the American Civil War as a fight for human ...

Historians agree that  the earliest record of the West African chattel, commonly called slaves, arrived in America in 1619.

The 84th Lincoln Pilgrimage, organized by the Gray Arrow District of the California Inland Empire Council of Scouting America, set out from Redlands High School midmorning Saturday and the parade made ...