This week in Akron history, a tavern keeper died, a famous daughter paid a visit, Goodyear prepared to expand and West Point ...

Emancipation Day celebrates when Andrew Johnson freed his slaves on August 8, 1863. Sam Johnson, a former slave, set up the ...

The Emancipation Proclamation also stated men of color would be allowed to join the Union army, an invitation they gladly accepted. By the end of the Civil War, nearly 200,000 Black men had fought ...

Tennessee celebrates Emancipation Day on August 8, marking the day many enslaved Tennesseans learned of their freedom. While President Andrew Johnson freed his slaves, his legacy is complex due to his ...

The 2025 Eighth of August festivities in Paducah will run through Sunday, several of them hosted by the W.C. Young Community ...

KELLY: Yeah. Well, I mean, the content of the document is summed up by the title - the Emancipation Proclamation - although President Lincoln wasn't actually freeing all enslaved people.

HBO's "The Gilded Age" has explored what it was like for wealthy Black Americans in the late 1800s in New York City.

On the 160th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, we should reflect on the wise words Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered in a 1962 speech about the significance of the document.

I actually saw the Emancipation Proclamation is probably - I would say about 20 years ago or so, that they opened it up. But I hadn't really studied Lincoln and it's one of those things.

The 160th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation reminds us of Abraham Lincoln’s “transformative leadership” in ending slavery, and the continuing relevance of his leadership traits ...

January 1, 2013 marks the sesquicentennial of the Emancipation Proclamation. Issued by Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, the Proclamation declared that “all persons held as slaves” within ...

The Emancipation Proclamation changed that, however, and explicitly redirected the struggle toward ending slavery in the United States. However, the language of the Proclamation was limited in scope.