On Sept. 22, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all enslaved people ...

Abraham Lincoln issued the "preliminary" Emancipation Proclamation on this day in history, Sept. 22, 1862, announcing the ...

Today is Sunday, Sept. 22, the 266th day of 2024. There are 100 days left in the year. Autumn begins at 8:43 a.m. EDT.

On Sept. 22, 1862, partly in response to the heavy losses inflicted at the Battle of Antietam, President Abraham Lincoln ...

On Sept. 22, 1994, "Friends," starring Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David ...

This is the weekend of Saturday, Sept. 21, and Sunday, Sept. 22, the 265th and 266th day of 2024. There are 100 days left in the year as of Sunday.

Freedom came to Russian serfs and U.S. slaves in the same decade. The future was fraught with uncertainty for both.

It's not just home to the U.S.'s founding documents. The National Archives safeguards about 13.5 billion paper records, including the check used to buy Alaska and Adolf Hitler's will.

The National Archives, built to safeguard America's heritage, holds more than 13.5 billion paper records. But it's been in ...

In neither country was emancipation a single event. Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, issued on Jan. 1, 1863, in the midst of the Civil War, actually freed few slaves, since most still lived ...

President Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring all enslaved people in Confederate ...