Griffin paid a record $13.7M for the 13th Amendment and $4.4 million for the Emancipation Proclamation. Both documents were ...

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

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Growing A Beard To Gain Votes Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images. Lincoln’s image can be found on two pieces of United States currency: the penny and five-dollar bill. His likeness can ...

Looking at a picture of Abraham Lincoln in October 1860, the 11-year-old Grace Bedell claimed to have solved the problem of Lincoln’s face and wrote him a letter to tell him about it. The ...

San Marino is the world's oldest (1,648 years), smallest (38 sq. mi.) and least populous (12,000) republic. For the past four years it has also been the only Communist-dominated state west of ...

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BLOOMINGTON — In October 1852, 20-year-old McLean County resident Mary Jane Beard filed for divorce. In the complaint to Judge David Davis and the 8th Judicial Circuit Court, Mary accused ...

Lincoln, A., Letter to a Little Girl (Grace Bedell) who Advised Him Not to Shave. ... ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S BEARD.; HOW A LITTLE NEW-YORK GIRL PERSUADED HIM TO LET IT GROW. Share full article.

JD Vance would make history with his beard. ... Abraham Lincoln started the trend of presidents ... He reportedly embraced the bewhiskered look after receiving a letter from an 11-year-old ...

What Rhonda Hiser discovered behind a bookcase at the Museum of Southern History in Florida was an 1865 American presentation flag that she now believes was draped over the coffin of assassinated ...

Lincoln grew a beard. Even 160-plus years ago, image was everything in politics, just as it is today. The Rail Splitter knew he was rocking the boat of tradition by letting his whiskers grow.