Along the right side of the flag is the date June 19, 1865, the day Pulido called, “Freedom Day, our nation’s second ...

The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 ...

Juneteenth is what the dictionaries call a “compression,” in this case of a date, ‘June Nineteenth.’ The actual June 19th that we mark with this holiday is June 19, 1865.

The emancipation took place on June 19, 1865, two-and-a-half years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation ...

On a farm in Simpsonville, Kentucky, Jake Bryan starts each morning the same way his father, grandfather and ...

Each June, communities across the United States gather to celebrate Juneteenth, a blend of "June" and "nineteenth”, as the ...

June 19, 2025, marks the fifth consecutive year that Juneteenth is a federally recognized United States holiday.

The Juneteenth holiday marks the day in 1865 when Union soldiers brought the news of freedom to enslaved Black people in ...

Samuel Osborne and his family, who became beloved members of the Waterville community in the late 19th century, were honored ...

On January 16, 1865, Union General William Tecumseh Sherman issued Special Field Order No. 15 which ordered the ...

The Juneteenth proclamation said that slaves were free from bondage, but were not going to be allowed to leave their owners.

June 19th is a holiday known as Juneteenth. It is a celebration of the ending of slavery in the United States, starting in ...