Originally issued by Lincoln during the Civil War in 1863, the proclamation declared enslaved people in the Confederate ...

We Americans believe we so fully understand Abraham Lincoln’s contribution to our ... This was the moral imperative that made him willing to fight the Civil War. Lincoln was one of the ...

Ken Griffin bought an Abraham Lincoln–signed copy of the 13th Amendment, for $13.7 million, and the Emancipation Proclamation ...

You’re weighing the totality of consequences — the 750,000 deaths, the bitterness that metastasized into Jim Crow, the Confederacy's martyr mythos that still haunts us — against the possibility of a ...

The hedge fund founder paid $13.7 million for a copy of the 13th Amendment and $4.4 million for the Emancipation Proclamation ...