The first Juneteenth was held in Galveston the next year. Celebrations were low-key affairs, often kept to church gatherings ...

On Wednesday, June 19, celebrate Juneteenth with Opal's Walk for Freedom. This year's 2.5-mile walk is through Fort Worth ...

Fort Abraham Lincoln in North Dakota has been reconstructed. In the 1930s, the federal WPA program repaired Fort Sisseton but it was not reconstructed as most of the original stone and material ...

In contrast, Lt. Col. George Custer’s battalion had only about 700 troopers in the June 25, 1876, ... Fort Ellis near Bozeman and Fort Abraham Lincoln near Bismarck.

Since its start in 2016, Opal’s Walk for Freedom has drawn a bigger crowd each year. “It used to start and march down Evans ...

The walk is a symbolic gesture recognizing the 2 1/2 years it took for news of freedom to reach enslaved people in Texas ...

On June 28, 1876, two days after the Battle of the Little Big Horn, ... and proposed the creation of a statue of Custer to be erected at Fort Abraham Lincoln.

Blackfoot, chief of the Mountain Crow, had plenty to trouble him on April 8, 1876, when Col. John Gibbon rode out of a wet spring blizzard and into the Crow Crow scouts play part in Little Bighorn ...

Several events are planned for the Fort Wayne community to celebrate Juneteenth, marking 160 years since news of emancipation ...

Abraham Lincoln was an American hero — but a flawed one. As we approach Juneteenth, let's also acknowledge some ugly truths ...

Gloves Lincoln Wore to Ford’s Theater Sell for $1.5 Million at Auction. More than 100 relics connected to President Abraham Lincoln brought in $7.9 million, auctioneers said.

A new bust of a young, clean-shaven Abraham Lincoln was unveiled at the East Peoria City Council meeting. Local artist Morgan Elser created the bust, depicting Lincoln before he grew his iconic beard.