Participating in the event were such organizations as the Tampa Bay History Center, the Historic Hernando Preservation ...

Charles Sumner is best known as the statesman caned within an inch of his life on the Senate floor for speaking against the expansion of slavery.  Sumner counted among his friends Ralph Waldo Emerson, ...

But patriotism’s home base clearly is the United States. Fully half of Americans think their country is the best on Earth, ...

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

Salem hosted its second annual Juneteenth Jam Festival Thursday at Charlotte Forten Park to celebrate the federal holiday.

Some on the “Juneteenth Jubilee and Freedom Walk,” which retraced the steps of enslaved people seeking freedom, say they ...

The town is actively seeking readers to participate in the “Reading Frederick Douglass Together” event on July 2 from 5-7 p.m ...

On June 19, 1865, Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger declared at Galveston, Texas, that "all slaves are free" by virtue of Lincoln's edict dated Jan. 1, 1863. It took more than two years to make the promise of ...

For those looking for ways to celebrate the holiday, there are several events planned across Middle Tennessee. All Week Juneteenth Black Restaurant Week . Nearly 20 African-Americ ...

When we gather to celebrate the Fourth of July, we rightly remember the Declaration of Independence and the birth of this great republic. But for nearly a century after 1776, millions of Americans ...

Lincoln Collection; Top. American Libraries; Canadian Libraries; Universal Library; Project Gutenberg; Children's Library; Biodiversity Heritage Library; ... Life and times of Frederick Douglass, ...