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

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

If I forget thee,” Abraham Lincoln thought, speaking not at this moment of God’s Law but of the doctrine of the Declaration ...

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 ...

Lincoln hated slavery but he was not an abolitionist, according to Civil War historian and author James Oakes in his latest book, “The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the ...

Two era-defining documents that ended slavery and reshaped American history are to be auctioned. The Thirteenth Amendment (estimated at $8–12 million) and the Emancipation Proclamation ...

As people across the country celebrated Juneteenth, some question whether or not lawmakers in 1865 actually intended to ...

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

As a Massachusetts senator during the years leading up to the Civil War, Sumner was a passionate and committed abolitionist.