Juneteenth is an important day in Black history as well as American history. Though Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation ...

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum's special events for Juneteenth will include the display of a signed copy ...

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum's special events for Juneteenth will include the display of a signed copy ...

While technically the whole affair was a bloody draw, in the end ... and on January 1, 1863, Lincoln issued the final Emancipation Proclamation. The two proclamations are both martial law ...

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 ...