Presidents Day, a federal holiday honoring U.S. presidents, is Feb. 17. What to know about the day, and presidents Washington and Lincoln.

As of 2023, more than half of states across the U.S. recognize Juneteenth as a permanent state holiday, according to the Pew ...

Black History Month is celebrated every February, the shortest and one of the coldest months of the year. At first glance it ...

Abraham Lincoln is often regarded as one of the greatest U.S. presidents, due to his leadership during the Civil War and his ...

"By finding these names, we are releasing them to give back these enslaved people some of their dignity," said Sarah Bader-King, executive director of the John Wornall House Museum.

When President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, he called it “the central act of my administration, and the great event of the 19th century.” Yet critics ...

On January 31, 1865, the U.S. Congress passed the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which ended slavery in the United ...

One such example is Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation (1863). It proclaimed the freedom of enslaved people in Confederate states, redefining the American Civil War as a fight for human ...

Fourth St., Chillicothe. Jubilee Day marks the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation by President Abraham Lincoln. Rev. Moses Edwards Jr., Pastor of First Baptist Church, will be the speaker.

The 84th Lincoln Pilgrimage, organized by the Gray Arrow District of the California Inland Empire Council of Scouting America, set out from Redlands High School midmorning Saturday and the parade made ...