This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ST. LOUIS – In 1861, Major General John C.

Lincoln faces an extreme amount of backlash when drafting the Emancipation Proclamation to free slaves in the confederate states, in this clip from Season 1, "A President At War." ...

At President Lincoln’s Cottage in Washington, DC, visitors can see where Lincoln grappled with grief and a divided nation.

A copy of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Abraham Lincoln is available for public viewing at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum (ALPLM) in Springfield. The historic ...

On the evening of January 2, 1863, a gathering of “the friends of emancipation,” according to the Syracuse Daily Journal, gathered in Clinton Square to celebrate the final enactment of President ...

President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863; however, word of the long-awaited news did not reach enslaved peoples in some parts of the country until much later.

President Joe Biden this week commemorated the 160th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, which ended slavery during the Civil War. The proclamation, issued on Jan. 1, ...

ST. LOUIS – In 1861, Major General John C. Fremont issued an emancipation proclamation in St. Louis, freeing slaves in Missouri, a bold move that predated President Abraham Lincoln’s more famous ...