The original Emancipation Proclamation on display in the Rotunda of the National Archives in Washington. (Evan Vucci/AP) January has two important anniversaries that help us understand the stakes ...

‘Emancipation’: A spectacle of suffering or sanctimonious self-regard? Will Smith plays a man fleeing the horrors of slavery in Antoine Fuqua’s Civil War chase film ...

Billionaire hedge funder Kenneth Griffin was the buyer of record-breaking copies of the 13th Amendment and the Emancipation Proclamation.

On the porch, a reading of the Emancipation Proclamation sounded into the streets to a listening crowd, each word carrying with it the promise and responsibility historic moments bring. A historic ...

click image for close-up Click here for the text of this historical document. As early as 1849, Abraham Lincoln believed that slaves should be emancipated, advocating a program in which they would ...

Emancipation Proclamation to go on permanent display at National Archives in 2026 Starting in 2026, the historic document will find a home next to the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the ...

STAY UP TO DATE WITH THE LATEST NEWS BY SUBSCRIBING TO MORNING REPORT NEWSLETTER Griffin also purchased a rare copy of the Emancipation Proclamation for $4.4 million at the same Sotheby’s auction on ...

When the final draft of the Proclamation was presented by the President to the Cabinet, it closed with the paragraph stating that the slaves it liberated would be received into the armed service ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with the executive director of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum about an original copy of Emancipation Proclamation it is displaying for Juneteenth.

The 64th Annual Emancipation Proclamation Celebration in Gary — a constant to usher in the new year — also ushered in a new era for the Interfaith Clergy Council of Gary & Vicinity as its ...

Abraham Lincoln issued the "preliminary" Emancipation Proclamation on this day in history, Sept. 22, 1862, announcing the slaves would be freed on Jan. 1, 1863.

That the Proclamation was issued as a war measure, for war purposes, and in the exercise of the war power, the President expressly declares, and nobody, so far as we know, pretends to doubt.