Citadel founder Ken Griffin paid $18.1 million for copies of the 13th Amendment and the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Abraham Lincoln.Griffin intends to loan the documents, which were ...

Originally issued by Lincoln during the Civil War in 1863, the proclamation declared enslaved people in the Confederate ...

A previously unknown and unpublished Civil War-era letter from President Abraham Lincoln has been acquired by the Raab Collection — and is being sold for $85,000. Here are details.

A previously unpublished letter by Abraham Lincoln that offers insight on his management of the Civil War sold Wednesday for $85,000. The letter, dated Aug. 19, 1861—during the first year of the ...

Abraham Lincoln pardoned President Biden's great-great-grandfather after a late-night Civil War-era brawl, documents reportedly show, linking the two presidents across the centuries. The court ...

So he had a little Civil War going, Abraham Lincoln.” A ”little Civil War” is certainly a way to describe that, although he has a recent history of saying surreal things about an event that ...

Pritzkers donate Lincoln's Civil War order to blockade Southern ports to state museum The fateful 163-year-old document had been in an anonymous private collection until its purchase at auction by ...

In recent weeks, historical sites and societies throughout the country have been marking the 151st anniversary of the end of the Civil War and the death of Abraham Lincoln. In the Harry T. Peters ...

Trump Says Abraham Lincoln Should Have "Settled" Civil War. ... week that while he thought Abraham Lincoln might have been a ...

This lesson would fit into American History units covering the Civil War and Reconstruction. Materials. Document Collection: Abraham Lincoln: Primary Source Documents; Document Collection: Optional ...

Documents from the National Archive show that then President Abraham Lincoln pardoned one of President Joe Biden's ancestors during the Civil War.

The Civil War was newly ended, and steamboats were regularly traveling up the Mississippi River to take soldiers back to their homes. One such steamboat, the Sultana, left Vicksburg on April 24 to ...