John William Templeton, an African American historian from California, has been researching abolitionism and Abraham Lincoln and has come to know almost everything there is to know about the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Juneteenth is America's best-known emancipation celebration—but not its ...

WELCOME BACK. EMANCIPATION DAY IS A SPECIAL LOCAL EVENT HELD EVERY MAY TO MARK THE DAY IN 1865 WHEN NEWS OF FREEDOM OFFICIALLY REACHED FLORIDA, TELLING THE SLAVES THAT THEY WERE NO LONGER. THEY’RE NOW ...

Weeks after the Civil War's guns fell silent and barely two months after President Abraham Lincoln's assassination, Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas. They had come to enforce the Emancipation ...

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum will mark Juneteenth with a series of public programs that include a rare display of the Emancipation Proclamation, theatrical performances, free ...