The decree also left room for a plan of compensated emancipation. No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1 Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation declared ...

This controversial April holiday is recognized in Alabama as a state holiday. What is it and when is it celebrated?

At the foot of both sits the iron cross of the Confederate States of America. As the US grapples with the question of what to do with its controversial memorials to the Confederacy, across the ...