Juneteenth has been celebrated since 1866 and commemorates June 19, 1865, when Major General Gordon Granger told slaves in ...
The holiday traces back 160 years on the island, to the day General Gordon Granger announced enslaved people were free two ...
Lincoln led through crisis by aligning decisive action with a long horizon, turning the fight to save the Union into a moral ...
(The Root) — Most of the time, the original Emancipation Proclamation is put away for safekeeping, but for a few days each year, the handwritten document that formally established the freedom of all ...
ST. LOUIS – In 1861, Major General John C. Fremont issued an emancipation proclamation in St. Louis, freeing slaves in Missouri, a bold move that predated President Abraham Lincoln’s more famous ...
On December 31, 1862, our Nation marked the end of another year of civil war. At Shiloh and Seven Pines, Harpers Ferry and Antietam, brother had fought against brother. Sister had fought against ...
On Maryland Emancipation Day, Anne Arundel County will become the first local jurisdiction to issue a formal apology for its ...