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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

Although we live in a suburban area, we are lucky to have plenty of farms nearby where we can purchase fresh corn. But, when ...

Learn about Abraham Lincoln (sixteenth president, 1861–1865) through museum art and artifacts from across the Smithsonian. The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery collection reflects many faces of ...