Lincoln faces an extreme amount of backlash when drafting the Emancipation Proclamation to free slaves in the confederate states, in this clip from Season 1, "A President At War." ...

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At President Lincoln’s Cottage in Washington, DC, visitors can see where Lincoln grappled with grief and a divided nation.

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.

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Photo of Emancipation Proclamation, along with the ink well used by President Lincoln to draft the document. Courtesy of the Smithsonian. President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan.

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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 ...

While the fight to end slavery in the U.S. is winning hearts and minds at movie theaters — on Thursday, “Lincoln,” the movie, earned 12 Academy Award nominations — travelers seeking a more intimate ...

For the 150th birthday of the Emancipation Proclamation, the National Archives is displaying the original document for members of the public to visit. A'Lelia Bundles, chair and president of the board ...

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 ...