It’s obviously hard to know what Abraham Lincoln would think today about parts of the 13th Amendment that was broadly designed to end slavery. He was assassinated just four months after Congress ...

Rare copies of the Emancipation Proclamation and 13th Amendment, signed by Lincoln, face alleged preservation issues at a new ...

The documents include rare copies of the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, bearing the ...

A handwritten copy of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution signed by Abraham Lincoln has sold at auction for a record $13.7 million. It’s the highest price ever paid for a document signed by ...

Bedrock civil rights milestones are at risk of withering away under the Trump administration—including in the physical sense.

Sold at the Fine Books and Manuscripts event in New York, each copy plays a crucial role in American’s history. The Thirteenth Amendment enshrined the abolition of slavery into law; the copy up for ...

The museum under the Lincoln Memorial had been displaying borrowed copies of the Emancipation Proclamation and 13th Amendment ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. American history buffs, this is the auction for you. A rare copy of the Thirteenth Amendment and the Emancipation Proclamation ...

Billionaire hedge fund manager Ken Griffin added two of the most iconic artifacts in American history to his growing collection of rare documents — spending a combined $18.1 million for items signed ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Noted Civil War experts Brandi C. Brimmer and Judith Giesberg are leading a discussion on the 16th president and the amendment abolishing slavery during the eighth annual Frank and ...

Foreword / Joan L. Flinspach -- Introduction / Harold Holzer -- Slavery during Lincoln's lifetime / James Oliver Horton -- Lincoln's critique of Dred Scott as a vindication of the Founding / Joseph R.