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

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

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

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

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

Charles Sumner is best known as the statesman caned within an inch of his life on the Senate floor for speaking against the expansion of slavery.  Sumner counted among his friends Ralph Waldo Emerson, ...

Each winner of the 2025 Dr. Eugene and Dr. Maxine Hankins Cain Lansing Juneteenth Essay Competition and Scholarship Program ...

Biden said at the time that June 19 serves as a "day in which we remember the moral stain, the terrible toll that slavery ...

Juneteenth became the newest U.S. federal holiday in 2021, but it has held significance for many Black Americans for a long ...

America's Second Independence Day is today. So, what is Juneteenth? And why is it celebrated? Here's what to know.

Those around the US behind efforts to cripple civil rights, erase accurate, unvarnished history and keep Americans afraid don ...

America's Second Independence Day is today. So, what is Juneteenth? And why is it celebrated? Here's what to know.