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Lincoln's "Lost Speech" has been called the most important event in Bloomington history, but the journey to a create a mural ...
Kenneth Griffin, the billionaire art collector and hedge fund founder, purchased the document that abolished slavery, as well ...
In 1858, after winning the Republican nomination for the Senate against incumbent Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln gave a speech that has stood the test of time because of the truth it laid plain ...
The hedge-fund billionaire also paid a record $43.2 million for a copy of the U.S. Constitution four years ago.
COMMENTARY By likening Trump's immigrant-demonization crusade to Lincoln's abolition of slavery, Miami U.S. Rep. María Elvira ...
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 ...
Founded by Abraham Lincoln and others fighting to bring down the abomination of slavery, that 1850s anti-slavery Republican party paved the way for Lincoln to win the presidency against Democrats ...
Billionaire Ken Griffin just broke the auction sales record for any document signed by President Abraham Lincoln. The Citadel hedge fund manager paid $13.7 million for an original copy of the 13th ...
If I forget thee,” Abraham Lincoln thought, speaking not at this moment of God’s Law but of the doctrine of the Declaration ...
Griffin reportedly plans to lend his copies of the Thirteenth Amendment and the Emancipation Proclamation to a US institution ...
Juneteenth may mark the day in 1865 when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas found out they had been freed, but thousands of people in Oklahoma ...
This Thursday marks 160 years since the origin of Juneteenth. Here's what to know about the holiday and why' it's celebrated.