About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive ... European carpers and critics will take of the proclamation. It will not make them a whit more ...

About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive ... a new the Dana-Seward Doctrine that the Proclamation, being a war measure, will end with the ...

Lincoln then read aloud a 325-word first draft of the Emancipation Proclamation, intended to free slaves in Confederate areas not under United States authority. Salmon P. Chase, secretary of the ...

On Sept. 22, 1862, partly in response to the heavy losses inflicted at the Battle of Antietam, President Abraham Lincoln issued a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, threatening to free all ...

I am reminded of the time that I was honored to hold one of the last few remaining copies of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Abraham Lincoln while visiting the Union League House ...

When Washington County residents got their hands on a copy of the Washington Reporter and Tribune days later, a front page headline shouted “Emancipation Proclamation!” A headline below it read, ...

KELLY: So I gather you're standing, what, like 20 feet away from the Emancipation Proclamation? This is one of a number of copies still in existence, is that correct? SHUTT: It is. So there are ...

Hailey Heseltine [email protected] Tuesday, May 20th, marks the 160th anniversary of Florida Emancipation Day, when the Emancipation Proclamation was read aloud in Tallahassee, officially ...

A copy of the Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, will be on display in Springfield in coming weeks as part of the celebration of the Juneteenth holiday. According to ...

View a photograph copy of President Abraham Lincoln's draft of the final Emancipation Proclamation, Jan. 1, 1863, at the Library of Congress. The original was destroyed in the Chicago fire of 1871.

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 ...