Tag: Emancipation Proclamation
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Nation & World
A model for nation in family celebrations of Juneteenth
Historian and legal scholar Annette Gordon-Reed discusses how Texans celebrate our newest national holiday, Juneteenth.
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Nation & World
Juneteenth in a time of reckoning
Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery across the nation, when the Union Army took official control of Texas on June 19, 1865, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Nation & World
Documents of freedom
The exhibit featured the Emancipation Proclamation, the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and a handwritten note from Frederick Douglass.
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Nation & World
Boston, hotbed of anti-slavery
A Houghton Library exhibit, the work of students, takes in Boston’s sweeping role in ending slavery in America.
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Nation & World
Studying the Civil War, finding shared values
High school students grapple with national issues by collaborating about Civil War themes to develop a new type of theater experience.
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Nation & World
The Emancipation Proclamation now
Marking the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, the Harvard Gazette asked scholars from across the University to reflect on the historic order’s ongoing impact today.