Juneteenth (also referred to as “Freedom Day”) celebrations vary by community. In Seattle, there are a number of ways to ...

This momentous occasion happened nearly nine months before the Emancipation Proclamation took effect ... That pressure eventually reached President Lincoln, who worked with Senator Henry Wilson ...

On April 16, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln abolished slavery in Washington, D.C., freeing more than 3,000 people. It was a joyful day that came after decades of effort by abolitionists and amid ...

When people hear Cinco de Mayo, they picture margaritas and mariachi bands. But for me, a Black gay man, descended from ...

Among other items from his presidency is a pocket-sized edition of the Emancipation Proclamation, which was handed out to Black Union soldiers. The auction of Lincoln ephemera comes at a time of ...

Russell Riley co-chairs the Presidential Oral History Program at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs ...

Among other items from his presidency is a pocket-sized edition of the Emancipation Proclamation, which was handed out to Black Union soldiers. The auction of Lincoln ephemera comes at a time of ...

Having been raised within five miles of the U.S. Capitol, the Federal Center in Washington D.C. is familiar ground. It was ...

No war, no Lincoln, no Emancipation Proclamation, no Gettysburg—neither the battle nor the address—to inspire and instruct us? And yet three-quarters of a million people died, and the enslaved ...

Smalls died in 1915. Tabernacle Baptist emerged during the Civil War and its early members sent resolutions in support of President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation to the president on Jan. 1, 1863 ...

Our Disruptor-in-Chief has grabbed the bloated federal corpus in his teeth and given it a good hard shake for 100 days. Many ...