click image for close-up Click here for the text of this historical document ... The decree also left room for a plan of compensated emancipation. No Confederate states took the offer, and ...

The National Archives has put a date to last year's announcement that the Emancipation Proclamation will go on permanent display. Starting in 2026, the historic document will find a home next to ...

he followed through on his word and issued the official Emancipation Proclamation on the first day of the new year in 1863. Lincoln signing this document signaled a long-awaited moment for many ...

Below, read the full text of the Emancipation Proclamation. By the President of the United States of America: A Proclamation. Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our ...

During a Juneteenth celebration, the archives said the historical document would join the others in the archive's rotunda, according to a National Archives release. The Emancipation Proclamation ...

The commemoration is enhanced by the fact the central re-enactment happens at the very spot the original event took place.

In the three-day temporary display period for the Archives’ Juneteenth celebration, the Emancipation Proclamation is viewable along with General Order No. 3, an 1865 document that informed the ...

On May 20, 1865, an estimated 61,000 people who were enslaved in Florida officially learned they were free. On that day, ...

As we experience what seems like a rerun of the Cold War—with Russia once again a hostile dictatorship—it may be hard to remember that Russia and the U.S. were once warmly supportive of each ...