It was a somber start of a new year for those families of 1863. The Civil War was not the early, decisive victory for Federal forces that many thought it would be. The faithful gathered for their ...

Sue Nappi highlights how the Sgt. Alfred B. Hilton Memorial Foundation is working to honor Harford County’s forgotten African ...

2012-10-27T17:59:51-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/e13/308137-m.jpgDuke University History Professor Thavolia Glymph and University of Richmond President Edward ...

Whereas on the 22nd day of September, A.D. 1862, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit: "That on the 1st day of January ...

When the new year arrived at midnight on Jan. 1, 1863, the quiet of most of the region’s small towns and rural expanses might well have been briefly disturbed by church bells ringing out. But there’s ...

WASHINGTON (WHTM) — In September 1862, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Then in January of 1863, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. One of the details that ...

Discussions of the Emancipation Proclamation on the national and state level will be held Sept. 17 and 21 as the document's 150th anniversary nears. A program sponsored by the National Endowment of ...

The United States has yet to officially apologize for the enslavement of African Americans, and many scholars and activists have called for some form of reparations for decades. President Joe Biden ...

"Emancipation" premiered in select theaters on December 2, 2022 and globally on Apple TV+ on December 9, 2022. The film follows Peter, who survives a brutal whipping and flees enslavement on a ...

Opening in select theaters this week before its Dec. 9 streaming premiere on Apple TV+, “Emancipation” is rated R for violence, and for “disturbing images and language.” Those words also apply to the ...