In July 2024, Griffin purchased a late Jurassic-era stegosaurus skeleton for a record-setting $44.6 million. Griffin has ...

For example, the administration has sought to limit so-called birthright citizenship, and to that effect received a favorable ...

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

The 4th of July is a federal holiday in the United States that commemorates the Continental Congress’s signing of the ...

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

Ken Griffin bought an Abraham Lincoln–signed copy of the 13th Amendment, for $13.7 million, and the Emancipation Proclamation ...

The hedge fund founder paid $13.7 million for a copy of the 13th Amendment and $4.4 million for the Emancipation Proclamation ...

The holiday commemorates the end of slavery in the United States, marking when enslaved people in Texas received news of the Emancipation Proclamation. The proclamation was issued on Sept. 22, 1862, ...

The proclamation was issued on Sept. 22, 1862, and enacted on Jan. 1, 1863, but because of the Civil War and the delays in messages getting to Texas, it didn’t get to Texas until June 19, 1865 ...

However, months after the war ended, all slaves were declared free when the 13th Amendment was ratified Dec. 6, 1865. Why did it take 30 months for the news to reach slaves in Texas? First, news ...

The 13th Amendment was passed by Congress on Jan. 31, 1865, eradicating slavery across the United States. But still, Black people who were enslaved in the westernmost Confederate states were not ...

Formal abolition In December 1865, the 13th Amendment formally abolished slavery in the United States. On June 19, 1866, freedmen in Texas organized the first "Jubilee Day" to commemorate the event.