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

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 ...

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

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

to Abraham Lincoln’s most infamous night at the theater. Except, as the film unfolds and what we watch is a surreal reworking of Lincoln’s love affair with young Elmer Ellsworth (who died of a single ...