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

Juneteenth celebrations unfolded across the U.S. on Thursday, marking the day in 1865 when Union soldiers brought the news of ...

A concert from the Galveston Symphony Orchestra marked 160 years since enslaved people in Texas were officially freed – a day ...

A new book finds that Galveston's business and political elite undermined the promise of "absolute equality" that we ...