Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! University of Kentucky professor Melanie Goan provided introductory remarks to begin her lecture on the state's decision to keep slavery or abolish ...

America will celebrate Emancipation Day, also known as Juneteenth on June 19 – commemorating the end of slavery in our country – but the nation's most recently recognized national holiday has been ...

The North Carolina History Center on the Civil War, Emancipation and Reconstruction is set to break ground on its main building within the next four months, with a targeted completion date in early ...

Most histories of the Civil War era portray the struggle over slavery as a conflict that exclusively pitted North against South, free labor against slave labor, and black against white. In Freedom's ...

Drawing his title from Lincoln’s 1858 “House Divided” speech, independent scholar Hyslop, author of several works on the American West, makes the case that in opening territories to slavery, westward ...

Richmond's history -- the good, the bad and the ugly -- will be bared to the public this weekend. Local museums, attractions and organizations will join forces Saturday for Civil War & Emancipation ...