Executive orders have shaped U.S. history, from Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation to FDR's New Deal. Recent presidents, ...

President Donald Trump has issued a proclamation recognizing Black History Month this February, despite his recent executive orders that have gutted diversity, equity and inclusion practices in ...

Now they may pay the price In Washington, Conness embraced the Emancipation Proclamation and grew close to Lincoln. (Conness was powerful because California’s other senator, James McDougall ...

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By the fall of 1863, the roots of the anti-slavery revolution were laid. Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation went into effect on Jan. 1, and the Confederacy’s strategic stronghold of Vicksburg ...

EOs can certainly be used to do much good: Lincoln’s Emancipation proclamation was in essence an Executive Order; so was Truman’s 1948 directive to desegregate the military. Or they can have m ...

Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation in early 1863 and slaves in Texas finally found out on June 19, 1865—there was no internet at that time. Lincoln's proclamation freed the slaves in ...

The United States did eventually recognize Haiti, in 1862, over a century after Haiti won its independence and just before the United States’ own Emancipation Proclamation. But, in Douglass ...

In the early moments of the Jan. 21 Sarasota City Commission meeting, Mayor Liz Alpert read an official proclamation in remembrance of Clifford Smith, the city’s longtime historic preservation ...

Riad Sattouf’s saga of his parents’ failed bicultural marriage, with its harsh depiction of life in rural Syria, has become a literary sensation. By Richard Fausset Richard Fausset reported ...