While some enslaved people did not know about Lincoln's order, many learned of it while the fighting was still ongoing ...

Stacker describes the events after the Emancipation Proclamation leading to the full abolition of slavery, using records, academic commentary, and reports. – VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images In many ...

WASHINGTON - For the second year, thousands of people marked Juneteenth by queuing outside the National Archives’s East Side Rotunda Gallery to catch a glimpse of the rarely exhibited Emancipation ...

Houston has celebrated Juneteenth at Emancipation Park since 1872. Here's what's happening at this year's event, from music ...

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 ...

Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America, by Allen C. Guelzo (Simon & Schuster, 2004) This work, the first major treatment on the Emancipation Proclamation in 40 years, is ...

Billionaire hedge funder and art collector Kenneth Griffin has revealed that he was the buyer of record-breaking copies of the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment, both signed by ...

After the Emancipation Proclamation was declared, Douglass finally had the go-ahead to begin recruiting the first official regiments of Black soldiers into the Union Army, including his two sons.

However, the language of the Proclamation was limited in scope. Although it famously declared that "all persons held as slaves … are, and henceforward shall be free," this didn't apply to all states ...