With the Emancipation Proclamation turning 150 years old this month, “Melissa Harris Perry” revisited the document and what it meant, for the rebellious south, for President Abraham Lincoln ...

President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation changing the legal status of slaves to free people on Jan. 1, 1863, but the war between the Union and Confederacy would go on for ...

Republican National Convention provided the young, burgeoning Chicago with perhaps its first real national recognition.

Press release from Alachua County. May 20th holds deep historical significance in Florida as it marks the day in 1865 when ...

On May 20, 1865, an estimated 61,000 people who were enslaved in Florida officially learned they were free. On that day, ...

But, for me, none of the sights compared to the Lincoln Memorial. Walking up the steps below the colonnade surrounding the statue of former President Abraham Lincoln was always awesome.

For at the foot of the table; standing solitary, his hat in his hand, his tall form towering above the committee members, Abraham Lincoln ... The emancipation proclamation was read to his Cabinet ...

I love introducing kids to ordinary people who did amazing things by reading picture book biographies for kids. Don't you?

A mural celebrating 169 years since Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous "lost speech" in Bloomington was unveiled Thursday ...

Hundreds of locals and dignitaries listened to a reading from the Emancipation Proclamation to celebrate the historic day.