Decades before the United States, France outlawed slavery during the French Revolution – only to see it reimposed by Napoleon ...

Missouri election officials still do not know which congressional map will govern the August primary, creating uncertainty that attorneys, election officials and referendum advocates warn could ...

Celebrations across the Baltimore area are marking Juneteenth in 2026.Archive video above: Lewis Museum underscores history behind Juneteenth (2025)Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when the last ...

People across Florida are celebrating the day slavery ended in the Sunshine State. May 20 is Emancipation Day in Florida. It ...

Frederick Douglass, a towering figure in American history, continues to receive bipartisan recognition for his unwavering ...

In this groundbreaking work, Du Bois reexamined Reconstruction by centering Black agency and arguing that formerly enslaved ...

Lincoln faces an extreme amount of backlash when drafting the Emancipation Proclamation to free slaves in the confederate states, in this clip from Season 1, "A President At War." Physicians urge 25th ...

The Emancipation Proclamation and the 19th Amendment have been added to the Archives’s rotunda, the first permanent changes there in nearly 75 years. By Jennifer Schuessler In “Born Equal,” Akhil Reed ...

D.C.’s celebration of its own Emancipation Day will be marked with a festival, parade and concert Sunday at 13th and Pennsylvania Ave. in Northwest. The events will commemorate the date — April 16, ...

The town of Port Royal is renewing a call to the federal Naval Hospital to restore public access to a site where thousands of freed slaves and soldiers gathered under a large oak tree near the ...

The Emancipation Proclamation and the 19th Amendment have been added to the Archives’s rotunda, the first permanent changes there in nearly 75 years. By Jennifer Schuessler The National Archives has ...