Juneteenth was commemorated across the country on Thursday, including in Boston at Roxbury Heritage State Park.

The national holiday marks the day in 1865 when news of the freedom of enslaved Black people arrived in Texas.

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The Juneteenth flag will fly over some state capitols and city buildings on June 19. Here's what to know about the flag's ...

Juneteenth is widely celebrated as a federal holiday on June 19 to commemorate the ending of slavery in the U.S.

Ten months into the Civil War, the Union was short on ... with a torn Confederate flag under his foot. Library of Congress The Union Army acted decisively to press its caffeine advantage.

The Republican party had run on an anti-slavery platform, and many southerners felt that there was no longer a place for them in the Union ... on April 18, 1865, the Civil War ended with the ...

For several decades, the cremated remains of more than two dozen American Civil War veterans languished ... lessons about the 1861-1865 war to preserve the Union, fought between the North's ...

As the war continued they became poorer and poorer ... Exactly at 8 o'clock the Confederate flag that fluttered above the Capitol came down and the Stars and Stripes were ran up.

The American Civil War is a pivotal and ugly moment in American ... actually come to an end in the United States. In June 1865, Union troops led by General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston ...

Local members of the Sons of Union ... from the Civil War. He volunteered with the 189th Ohio Volunteers, serving with the unit at the end of the war — from Feb. 27 to Sept. 28, 1865.