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 ...

Last fall, curators and interns at the New York State Museum were digging through their audio archives in an effort to digitize their collection. It was tedious work; the museum houses over 15 million ...

For Juneteenth on Morning Edition, professor Nathan Connolly reflects on the promise of the Emancipation Proclamation, and NPR staff voice the... Observing Juneteenth with a reading of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the steps of what is now the Knott House Museum, where the Emancipation Proclamation was first read in the state of Florida, it ...

It's the 160th anniversary of the reading of the Emancipation Proclamation in Tallahassee, which occurred more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued. Word reached Florida’s ...

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 ...

Today, the country observes Juneteenth. The holiday marks the arrival of U.S. Army troops in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865. The troops told some of the last enslaved Americans that they were free ...