Below we post a letter from a reader on "150 years since the Emancipation Proclamation" and a reply by the author, Tom Mackaman. Dear Tom, I’d like to examine the implications of one of the ...

According to a March 21 article on Axios, Congressman Jim Clyburn of the Sixth District of South Carolina said, "Yeah, I don't accept the notion that Juneteenth is the day that Blacks were freed ...

They include letters from Vice President Andrew Johnson ... Lincoln laid out the estimated cost to the nation's coffers of his "emancipation with compensation" proposal. Paying slaveholders ...

I support a state holiday to celebrate the emancipation of enslaved Americans ... Recently, The Capital has published letters that touch on the politics and merits of past and proposed ...