Ken Griffin bought an Abraham Lincoln–signed copy of the 13th Amendment, for $13.7 million, and the Emancipation Proclamation ...

Billionaire Kenneth C. Griffin has been revealed as the winner of last week's auction at Sotheby's for President Abraham ...

John Adams, a founder of the United States and its second president, privately expressed doubts that the republic would ...

When I finished reading the preface to Stacy Lynn's Loving Lincoln: A Personal History of the Women Who Shaped Lincoln's Life ...

Charles Sumner is best known as the statesman caned within an inch of his life on the Senate floor for speaking against the expansion of slavery.  Sumner counted among his friends Ralph Waldo Emerson, ...

The Lost Peace' by Jay Winik. The most serious attempt to evade America's Civil War was probably doomed to fail, said Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker. But that effort at reco ...