Stacker describes the events after the Emancipation Proclamation leading to the full abolition of slavery, using records, academic commentary, and reports. – VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images In many ...

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Original copies of the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment are on display in the “Slavery and Freedom” exhibition on Concourse Three of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African ...

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 ...

"We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth." The 160th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, celebrated this New Year’s Day, offers not only the remembrance of one of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A copy of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Abraham Lincoln is available for public viewing at the Abraham Lincoln ...

correctionAn earlier version of this article incorrectly said that Lee Glazer's title is director of the National Archives. She is director of museum programs. This article has been corrected. For the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Civil War reenactors participate in a Juneteenth celebration June 20, 2014, at the Atlanta Cyclorama and Civil War Museum.

Billionaire hedge funder and art collector Kenneth Griffin has revealed that he was the buyer of record-breaking copies of the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment, both signed by ...

After the Emancipation Proclamation was declared, Douglass finally had the go-ahead to begin recruiting the first official regiments of Black soldiers into the Union Army, including his two sons.

A print based on David Gilmour Blythe’s painting of Lincoln writing the Emancipation Proclamation. In many Americans’ recollections, the Emancipation Proclamation was a landmark piece of legislation ...