When Bill Hanchett died in 2016, his son found a bundle of letters and postcards to family that he had written while in the ...

In grade school, I lived in Springfield, Illinois. When family or friends visited, we would invariably take them to see ...

Kenneth Griffin, the billionaire art collector and hedge fund founder, purchased the document that abolished slavery, as well ...

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

Trump has executed a near-complete inversion of the typical diplomatic formula: He’s not nice, he’s not conflict-averse, he’s ...

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum kicked off its Independence Day celebration by unveiling a rare 21-star flag, marking Illinois' entry as the ...

When I finished reading the preface to Stacy Lynn's Loving Lincoln: A Personal History of the Women Who Shaped Lincoln's Life ...

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

Jon Meacham — the Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian — will be out Tuesday with an introduction for a new Random ...

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

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 ...