A few years ago, a group of Iowa Republicans claimed the legitimate 13th Amendment to the Constitution was “missing.” The debate is part of an historical detective story with some surprising ...

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

When slavery was outlawed in the US in 1865, the 13th Amendment included one exception. “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have ...

Timothy Huebner talked about the meaning of the 13th Amendment during Reconstruction. Report Video Issue Javascript must be enabled in order to access C-SPAN videos.

Lincoln’s Proclamation freed some 3.1 million slaves within the Confederacy.Eric Foner, historian and author of a recent book, The Second Founding: How the Civil […] Skip to content All Sections ...

In theory, the two new movies dealing with America’s racial history ought to describe a cinematic straight line: Nate Parker’s provocatively titled drama The Birth of a Nation imagines the events ...

As the nation celebrates the addition of Juneteenth as a federal holiday this week, lawmakers are reviving calls to end a loophole in the Constitution ...

NEW YORK - A crowd, most of them employees with ID badges around their necks, gathered in the back of the room of Sotheby's for the last two items of Thursday's morning auction.

The 13th Amendment, which was ratified by the states on Dec. 6, 1865, abolished slavery, declaring: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party ...

Panelists talked about the legacy of President Abraham Lincoln and the 13th amendment. Speakers and panelists included William "Bro" Adams, Allen Guelzo, Sidney Blumenthal, David Rubenstein, Lucas ...

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