Emancipation Proclamation

Today in History: Born on January 28

Anna "Ivanovna", Tsarina of Russia.

John Baskerville, inventor of the "hot-pressing" method of printing.

Jose Marti, Cuban poet and journalist, known as the "Apostle of the Cuban Revolution."

Jackson Pollock, influential abstract expressionist painter.

Civil War Times

New Orlean, the Confederacy's largest and most commercially important city, fell to the Union in May 1862

Military History

The war’s closing hours erupted in this southern seat