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 ...

Stories from the 1800s are still being told in Our Town Mount Pleasant. “We could put it all in context and be storytellers ...

Ever wondered about the origins of the Abraham Lincoln sculpture seated on a bench in downtown Bloomington? Here's a look ...

Chicago auction house under fire for selling off items on Lincoln’s body the night he was killed. A Chicago auction house will sell some of President Abraham Lincoln’s belongings, including ...

The blood-stained leather gloves that were in Lincoln’s pocket the night he was assassinated were among the 144 items up for bid, 136 of which sold.

Find out more about the life of Abraham Lincoln, the president who preserved the Union and helped abolish ... In 1862, while the family was in the White House, 11-year-old Willie died of typhoid ...

Other popular items included a handkerchief Lincoln had on the night he was shot, which sold for $826,000, and the earliest known sample of the 16th president’s handwriting, from a notebook in ...