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.

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 ...

Abraham Lincoln issued the "preliminary" Emancipation Proclamation on this day in history, Sept. 22, 1862, announcing the slaves would be freed on Jan. 1, 1863.

Billionaire hedge fund manager Ken Griffin added two of the most iconic artifacts in American history to his growing ...

The record-breaking sale comes just a few years after he paid $43.2 million for a copy of the U.S. Constitution.

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 ...

I’m referring to Abraham Lincoln, ... That All Men Are Created Equal,” a new exhibit at the Lincoln Memorial Shrine in Redlands, explores American slavery and Lincoln’s role in ending it.

Abraham Lincoln is often ranked as one of the United States’s most important presidents for his role in steering the country through the Civil War and his insistence on abolishing slavery ...

Abraham Lincoln's arguments against slavery in his first debate with Stephen Douglas in Ottawa, Illinois, would make him a national figure.

Presidential historian Jon Meacham speaks with NPR about his new biography, And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle. It examines Lincoln's actions as well as motivations.