Presidents Day, a federal holiday honoring U.S. presidents, is Feb. 17. What to know about the day, and presidents Washington and Lincoln.

The Flat Rock community, founded by descendants of enslaved people, has its legacy preserved through the Flat Rock Archives in ... Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863—freeing ...

Abraham Lincoln served as the 16th U.S. president, leading the nation during the Civil War and signing the Emancipation Proclamation ... according to the National Archives. With the holiday ...

See, I thought I was just heading to the ... Aaron Wingate was born into slavery in 1856, but in 1881 − 28 years after the Emancipation Proclamation − he purchased more than 80 acres of ...

With not all of the 60 passengers, four crew and three soldiers yet recovered, and officials from the National Traffic ... Bill of Rights (1791), Emancipation Proclamation (1863), Gettysburg ...

The Iowa House Higher Education Committee passed four bills, most with amendments, during its meeting after hearing a presentation from the National ... and the Emancipation Proclamation, and ...

The African American Historic Places in South Carolina is a publication of the State Historic Preservation Office in the South Carolina Department of Archives and History. It was published in 2021 ...

The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement ... D.C., to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. According to the ASALH, because over 10,000 people also attended ...

Credit: AP/John McDonnell “It is not clear how a school could teach a fulsome U.S. History course without teaching about slavery, the Missouri Compromise, the Emancipation Proclamation ...

A large and respectable audience collected at Cooper Institute to hear FREDERICK DOUGLASS' views on the Proclamation ... would be ranked with Catholic emancipation, with the British Reform ...