No Confederate states took the offer, and on January 1 Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation declared, "all persons held as slaves within any States, or designated part ...

Object title: Half-copy of the 1916 Proclamation, taken from the printing press in Liberty Hall and given to the police. It ended up in the Chief Secretary’s Office Registered Papers ...

The Irish men and women who bravely fought in the 1916 Easter Rising are commemorated in a garden of remembrance with a monument of the Irish proclamation in Springfield, Massachusetts.

In this lesson, students explore the realities of life after the Emancipation Proclamation and learn about courageous individuals who fought against the inequalities African Americans experienced.

The 1916 proclamation was read out in full by Captain Paul Murphy, who learned it off by heart. “(There were) a lot of trips to work reciting it in the car, a lot of moments brushing my teeth in ...