Reconstruction of the South, 1857. Library of Congress. January 1: President Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that the majority of the nation's slave population ...

The Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris is set to reopen to visitors beginning Dec. 8, more than five years after an accidental ...

French President Emmanuel Macron is set to tour the famous Parisian cathedral on Friday, ahead of the reopening on December ...