Kenneth Griffin, the billionaire art collector and hedge fund founder, purchased the document that abolished slavery, as well ...

That’s how it always goes in today’s GOP. Lawmakers spend huge amounts of time and energy manufacturing fig leaves for their ...

Abraham Lincoln is well-known for his extraordinary political career. Elected twice by the American public, Lincoln's ...

A controversial flag which some say cost them their jobs is ready to go on display at a Springfield museum. Here's what you ...

A presidential portrait with Donald Trump's approval now hangs in the Colorado Capitol after his complaints got a previous one of him taken down. The new portrait by Tempe, Arizona, artist Vanessa ...

A deed from the Roxbury estate of actor Marilyn Monroe and playwright Arthur Miller is going up for auction at Wilton-based auction next month. The item is one of several items that is part of the ...

Those words were delivered by United States President George W Bush on board the USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003, as he ...

Juneteenth became an official federal holiday starting in 2021 under former President Joe Biden to recognize the freedom of ...

The United States Postal Service and federal offices across the country are closed today — Thursday, June 19 — in observance ...

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after the Civil War’s end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum has obtained an original 1858 photograph of the future president with an interesting — if somewhat macabre — backstory.

One of just two confirmed photographs of Abraham Lincoln (seated in center, facing the camera) at Gettysburg on the day of his address Public domain via Wikimedia Commons On November 19, 1863 ...