Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Four ways to freedom -- President will rise -- Instrument in God's hands -- Mighty act -- Fame takes him by the hand -- Postscript: Father Abraham -- Appendix -- ...

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 ...

President Abraham Lincoln signed the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation 162 years ago this week. To celebrate, dozens of people gathered for the unveiling of a new presidential statue outside the ...

(WDBJ) - On September 22nd, 1862, Abraham Lincoln issued a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. It was a threat to free all enslaved people in the Confederacy if those states did not return to 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 ...

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 ...

Billionaire hedge funder and art collector Kenneth Griffin has revealed that he was the buyer of record-breaking copies of the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment, both signed by ...

The holiday commemorates the full and complete enactment of the Emancipation Proclamation in the U.S. President Abraham Lincoln issued the proclamation to free enslaved African Americans in ...