Last weekend, friends and family of Lillie Mae Bynum gathered in Goffstown to celebrate the incredible story, a local woman ...

Calling the lack of access an issue of civil rights, the town is calling on the federal government to open the site where ...

The 75-foot obelisk topped by a bugler and dedicated in 1900 honors eight Union leaders and 12 major battles, including the ...

The US National Archives has permanently expanded its iconic display with the original documents that ended slavery. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

In Selma, the group crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where in 1965 some 600 Civil Rights marchers for voting rights were ...

The Emancipation Proclamation and the 19th Amendment have been added to the Archives’s rotunda, the first permanent changes ...

The discovery has raised the museum's foot traffic, along with hopes of staving off a possible nine-story mixed-use building ...

The future 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, was born in a log cabin in Kentucky. Lincoln became one of the most revered and uniquely appealing U.S. Presidents, known as Honest Abe ...

A special day in American history was recognized at Tuesday night’s Milledgeville City Council meeting. The date was Jan. 1, 1863, when Pres. Abraham Lincoln signed the historic Emancipation ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) - It could be the first time ever a Colorado Springs City Councilor walked out during a discussion over a proclamation. The City Council is home to a lot of spirited ...

On Jan. 1, 1863 President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, granting freedom to all enslaved persons living in the Confederate states. Joyful celebrations followed. On Jan. 1, 2026 ...

The Emancipation Proclamation is one of the most important documents in relation to human rights ever signed into law in this country. On January 1st each year, churches of various denominations as ...