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 ...

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 ...

Christina Shutt shows ciLiving host, Jaclyn Friedlander the Emancipation Proclamation at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum. Step inside the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & ...

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 ...

"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 ...

A rare signed copy of the Emancipation Proclamation will be displayed this month at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield in honor of Juneteenth, the holiday commemorating ...

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 ...

"This collection arose from a symposium on the Emancipation Proclamation held at the Pennsylvania State University in April 2007 as part of the Steven and Janice Brose Distinguished Lecture Series ...

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.

Loretta Carter Hanes was researching at a library in her hometown of Washington, D.C., when she came across a piece of local history that surprised her. She learned that in April 1862, President ...