Posted in Web Explainer-What Is Juneteenth and When Did It Become a US Federal Holiday? June 18, 2025 Juneteenth, a combination of the words June and 19th, is also known as Emancipation Day. It commemorates the day in 1865 – after the Confederate states surrendered to end the Civil War – when a … https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-06-18/explainer-what-is-juneteenth-and-when-did-it-become-a-us-federal-holiday