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Juneteenth falls on June 19th and is a day to celebrate the end of slavery in the United States. It's an important day for ...

In 1863, he wrote one of the most profound statements about human rights, the Emancipation Proclamation. According to a famous apocryphal story, Lincoln read the proclamation to his cabinet in the ...

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 ...

“Print is dead,” or so the saying goes. But one look at the Spitting Image Art Book Fair suggests otherwise. When nearly everything from news to artwork is now accessible on a screen, print can feel ...

Throughout the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the early years of the Gilded Age, Thomas Nast used his political cartoons published in Harper's Weekly to satirize current events, expose corruption, and ...

Summer may still be a month away, but that doesn't mean you can't start planning now. The organizers of some of Oregon's biggest events have already released dates and details to help you pack ...

The short-term rental advisory committee officially has enough members to begin its work. The select board unanimously appointed Kara D. Foley, a licensed real estate agent from Teaticket, to the ...

Photos: Norma Connolly One hundred and ... with Lord Sligo standing nearby, read out the Emancipation Proclamation that declared Cayman’s slaves free. On Monday this week, at Fort George ...

While the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in January 1863, the seeds of Black Dandyism were planted in England over 100 years before reaching the Americas. Black people, specifically Black ...