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

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 — ...

Consensus-building can be very difficult, even for the president of the United States. Abraham Lincoln was faced with a nation that was split on the issue of slavery. In 1863, he wrote one of the most ...

Promoting itself on the National Mall and harvesting some criticism, the President Donald Trump administration's Department ...