Juneteenth is America's best-known emancipation celebration—but not its only one.

Often referred to as Black Independence Day, Second Independence Day, Emancipation Day or Freedom Day, Juneteenth commemorates the day the news of the Emancipation Proclamation made it to enslaved ...

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.

Here is what to know about Juneteenth and recent claims about it.

WASHINGTON - For the second year, thousands of people marked Juneteenth by queuing outside the National Archives’s East Side Rotunda Gallery to catch a glimpse of the rarely exhibited Emancipation ...

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Page one of the original Emancipation Proclamation is seen Jan. 19, 2003, at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Picture the Emancipation Proclamation, the Civil War-era executive order that ...

Allen Guelzo’s book leads us into contested territory. For more than a generation after the Civil War, Francis B. Carpenter’s painting “The Emancipation Proclamation,” portraying Lincoln as the great ...

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 Stacker ...

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 ...