Originally issued by Lincoln during the Civil War in 1863, the proclamation declared enslaved people in the Confederate states to be free. This version, signed in 1864, had been expected to sell for ...

Items on Abraham Lincoln’s body the night he was assassinated, his earliest known handwriting and other extraordinary relics from his life are being auctioned this week in a sale that drew ...

A piece of Abraham Lincoln’s coat, which he wore when he was assassinated at Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865, is framed at Freeman’s | Hindman in West Loop, Chicago, May 15, 2025.

A pair of leather gloves worn by President Abraham Lincoln to Ford’s Theater on the night of his assassination fetched $1.5 million at auction this week, part of a trove of relics from his life ...

The white leather gloves are stained with blood from the night Abraham Lincoln wore them to the theater. Even on a celebratory night marking an end to war, Lincoln disliked donning the flashy bit ...