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Kenneth Griffin, the billionaire art collector and hedge fund founder, purchased the document that abolished slavery, as well ...
A pair of leather gloves worn by President Abraham Lincoln to Ford’s Theater on the night of his assassination fetched $1.5 million at auction this week, part of a trove of relics from his life ...
US News Abraham Lincoln’s bloodstained gloves from the night of his assassination among 144 artifacts on auction By Associated Press Published May 22, 2025, 7:37 a.m. ET ...
A Chicago auction house will sell some of President Abraham Lincoln’s belongings, including blood-stained gloves he had in his pocket the night he was killed.
The Lincoln Presidential Foundation is in debt, so it is putting more than 100 of its artifacts up for auction. The collection’s original owner is “appalled.” ...
Items being sold by the Freeman’s/Hindman auction house include the first-known example of Lincoln’s handwriting from 1824, an item appraised as high as $400,000. It’s a yellowed page of ...
The bold stage show '3 Summers of Lincoln' — starring Ivan Hernandez, Quentin Earl Darrington, Carmen Cusack and Saycon Sengbloh — will play at La Jolla Playhouse through March 30.
On a February afternoon in 1864, Abraham Lincoln stood outside the White House, waiting impatiently for the presidential carriage he had summoned for a trip down Pennsylvania Avenue to Mathew ...
Abraham Lincoln spent his birthday in Cincinnati on Feb. 12, 1861, on his way from Springfield, Illinois, to the nation’s capital for his inauguration.
FILE - A painting of President Abraham Lincoln is seen behind President Donald Trump as he speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Sept. 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File) ...
First, there was William G. Greene, also known as Billy Greene. Lincoln worked with him in a general store owned by Denton Offutt in New Salem, Illinois. During this time, Lincoln and Greene ...
Harold Holzer - Author, Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and Immigration Abraham Lincoln’s third annual message to Congress spurred prompt and consequential action on what became ...