Why does Florida celebrate Emancipation Day on May 20th? Neighborhood reporter Ashley Engle explores the state’s unique journey to freedom and how communities are preserving that history today.

While not as widely celebrated as Juneteenth — which marks June 19, 1865, as the day the last city in the "rebellious states," Galveston, Texas, was informed its enslaved population was free — ...

Robert E. Lee, Confederate General, dared to cross the border and invade Pennsylvania, a Union state. Lee hoped to force Lincoln into negotiations to end the war. Lincoln felt ...

Ari Siegel turned his love for history into History By Mail, a profitable subscription service that mails replicas of famous ...

Liam Neeson passed up on playing a former US president after a rewrite of the script left him feeling like he was the wrong choice, and "cringing with embarrassment" when he read the lines.