President Donald Trump made no statement about the federal holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, ...

As a Massachusetts senator during the years leading up to the Civil War, Sumner was a passionate and committed abolitionist.

Across Connecticut, communities celebrated the Juneteenth holiday. Juneteenth is the newest federal holiday. Federal ...

When Union Army General Gordon Granger came to Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, to announce the end of slavery, his order ...

“…one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” Of course, we understand that in 1775, at the time ...

Syracuse's own Juneteenth celebrations date back decades, with local Black communities calling it "our Fourth of July." ...

Legal minds will have their opportunity to shape the future policies of our land, and I pray they have the grace and wisdom ...

Juneteenth became a federal holiday in 2021 when then-President Joe Biden signed bipartisan legislation into law, officially ...

LancasterHistory's newest museum has been accepted into a National Park Service network dedicated to the U.S. era of ...

Juneteenth 2025 is this week. Here's what to know about the federal holiday, why it's celebrated and its origins.

The ratification of the 14th Amendment was born out of a need for clarity in the years following the Civil War. The 13th Amendment had abolished slavery in 1865, but it left unresolved critical ...

The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments were introduced after the war of 1861-1865 to reconfigure the balance of power between states and the federal government. As stated by the Supreme Court in Ex ...