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 ...

Editorial: Lincoln offers a model of how we, in the midst of seemingly never-ending conflicts, can celebrate Thanksgiving.

Ken Griffin, known for purchasing a Stegosaurus skeleton and a rare copy of the U.S. Constitution, recently acquired Abraham Lincoln's handwritten copy of the 13th Amendment. Griffin purchased the ...

1862: President Abraham Lincoln reading the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared that all those enslaved in rebel-held territory would be "thenceforward, and forever, free." 1862: President ...

On December 31, 1862, our Nation marked the end of another year of civil war. At Shiloh and Seven Pines, Harpers Ferry and Antietam, brother had fought against brother. Sister had fought against ...

Strazdes, Diana, "American paintings and sculpture to 1945 in the Carnegie Museum of Art," New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the Carnegie Museum of Art, 1992. Catalogue of Painting ...

The revolutionary Samuel Adams is credited with writing the document in 1777. It referred to “a just and necessary war” ...