An Abraham Lincoln–signed copy of the 13th Amendment, as well as a copy of the Emacipation Proclamation, are heading to ...

The Martin Luther King Jr. Committee of Northeast Michigan is hosting a free Juneteenth program from 7 to 8 p.m. on Thursday ...

The event holds special significance on Hilton Head Island. Freed slaves purchased land on Hilton Head after the Civil War, ...

Rare copies of both the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment will be auctioned off in Sotheby’s upcoming books ...

The National Assembly (N.A.) unanimously approved a resolution amending key provisions of the Constitution of the Socialist ...

Americans will celebrate their next public holiday on Thursday, when 19 June is commemorated as Juneteenth across the US. The holiday was created after Congress passed a bill on the subject in June ...

A federal appeals court has revived a First Amendment lawsuit filed by the Catoosa County GOP that claims the the county's ...

The origin of the Juneteenth celebrations marking the end of slavery goes back to an order issued as Union troops arrived in ...

President Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president, signed The Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves in the Confederacy (the southern ...

Here is a look at Juneteenth, the oldest known US celebration of the end of slavery. On June 19, 1865, over two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, enslaved African ...

Vietnam's National Assembly on Monday unanimously passed sweeping constitutional amendments, with all 470 delegates present ...

Bishop sees in the rise of the Republican Party, culminating in Lincoln’s election, the beginning of a Marxist revolution.