MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - On Jan. 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which said all enslaved people in Confederate states were free. The packed sanctuary at the ...

On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the legendary Emancipation Proclamation—one of the most significant documents in human history and a grand edict that paved the way to the ...

A copy of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Abraham Lincoln is available for public viewing at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum (ALPLM) in Springfield. The historic ...

Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders doubled down on her decision to issue a proclamation shuttering state government offices on Friday in celebration of Christmas after receiving a complaint from a legal ...

Guest Opinion. The judiciary should be above reproach and when a judge falls from grace, it is alarming. When the judge comes from the highest court in a state, it is cause for particular alarm. In a ...

Michigan’s Indigenous history that helped spark the American Revolution. Michigan history is Indigenous history. At Middle Village, Michigan a thriving 1700s Odawa hub, Anishinaabe communities shaped ...

President Donald Trump’s 2025 Thanksgiving proclamation called for national unity, gratitude to God and reflection on American history, a formal message that differed in tone from the politically ...

Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor—and whereas both ...

On Thursday, November 26, 1789, the newly formed United States of America celebrated the nation’s first Thanksgiving. About two months earlier, on September 25, 1789, New Jersey Rep. Elias Boudinot ...

The revolutionary Samuel Adams is credited with writing the document in 1777. It referred to “a just and necessary war” against the British. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Wednesday. We’ll prepare ...

Documents the growing conflict between Britain and its American colonies from 1763-1765, including the Royal Proclamation restricting westward expansion, the controversial Stamp Act, and colonial ...