After the Emancipation Proclamation was declared, Douglass finally had the go-ahead to begin recruiting the first official regiments of Black soldiers into the Union Army, including his two sons.

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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." ...

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 ...

United States National Archives in Washington, DC with a huge flag hanging on its columns.(Getty Images/iStockphoto/OGphoto) “The people to whom this order was addressed, were the last group of ...

A signed copy of the Emancipation Proclamation soon will be on display in Springfield. The ALPLM’s copy of the executive order signed by Lincoln and then-U.S. Secretary of State William Seward is one ...

Today, the federal government 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 ...

The United States has a new national holiday to celebrate: Juneteenth, marking the day in 1865 — in the aftermath of the Civil War — when U.S. Army troops landed in Galveston, Texas, and informed some ...

However, the language of the Proclamation was limited in scope. Although it famously declared that "all persons held as slaves … are, and henceforward shall be free," this didn't apply to all states ...

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 ...