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

The record-breaking sale comes just a few years after he paid $43.2 million for a copy of the U.S. Constitution.

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

Two era-defining documents that ended slavery and reshaped American history are to be auctioned. The Thirteenth Amendment (estimated at $8–12 million) and the Emancipation Proclamation (estimated at ...

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

Billionaire Art Collector Ken Griffin Buys Lincoln's Handwritten Copy of 13th Amendment for $13.7 M. Billionaire Kenneth C.

Citadel founder Ken Griffin paid $18.1 million for copies of the 13th Amendment and the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Abraham Lincoln.

As people across the country celebrated Juneteenth, some question whether or not lawmakers in 1865 actually intended to ...

Union troops reached Galveston, Texas, carrying with them orders that all enslaved people were now free. For decades, marking the occasion was an act of bravery and defiance for many Black Americans.

As a Massachusetts senator during the years leading up to the Civil War, Sumner was a passionate and committed abolitionist.

Kettering is celebrating Juneteenth with a “Party in the Park”. Juneteenth marks the end of slavery in the United States.