The hedge-fund billionaire also paid a record $43.2 million for a copy of the U.S. Constitution four years ago.

Billionaire Ken Griffin just broke the auction sales record for any document signed by President Abraham Lincoln. The Citadel ...

Griffin reportedly plans to lend his copies of the Thirteenth Amendment and the Emancipation Proclamation to a US institution ...

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

Griffin paid a record $13.7M for the 13th Amendment and $4.4 million for the Emancipation Proclamation. Both documents were ...

From left, Kurt Jackson and Kevin Mann, both of Salem, lead the fifth annual Teach Truth walk from Waterworth Memorial Park ...

Juneteenth may mark the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed, but thousands of ...

To better understand history, we must understand how people thought and acted in the context of their times and the ...

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

Juneteenth became a federal holiday in 2021 when then-President Joe Biden signed bipartisan legislation into law, officially ...

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This Thursday marks 160 years since the origin of Juneteenth. Here's what to know about the holiday and why' it's celebrated.