January 1st is celebrated for both New Year’s Eve and the Emancipation Proclamation, the document issued by President Abraham Lincoln that freed all slaves in Confederate areas in 1863. As ...

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 ...

1862: President Abraham Lincoln reading the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that all those enslaved in rebel-held territory would be "thenceforward, and forever, free." 1862: President ...

The public is invited to Peterboro, in Madison County, on Wednesday for a New Year’s Eve event commemorating the issuing of President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation in 1862. Events run ...

Charleston's annual Emancipation Parade is set for Jan. 1 to mark 163 years since President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. READ MORE | "International African American Museum ...