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Trump has executed a near-complete inversion of the typical diplomatic formula: He’s not nice, he’s not conflict-averse, he’s ...
When I was a teenager, a mostly forgotten series of novels taught me U.S. history. How would they read to me now?
Griffin paid a record $13.7M for the 13th Amendment and $4.4 million for the Emancipation Proclamation. Both documents were ...
Citadel founder Ken Griffin paid $18.1 million for copies of the 13th Amendment and the Emancipation Proclamation signed by President Abraham Lincoln.
Billionaire Art Collector Ken Griffin Buys Lincoln's Handwritten Copy of 13th Amendment for $13.7 M. Billionaire Kenneth C.
The hedge-fund billionaire also paid a record $43.2 million for a copy of the U.S. Constitution four years ago.
A copy of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by Lincoln -- the highlight of a fascinating catalog -- sold at a Sotheby’s auction for $12 million.
When I finished reading the preface to Stacy Lynn's Loving Lincoln: A Personal History of the Women Who Shaped Lincoln's Life ...
Roger Q. Mason’s stage play and film Lavender Men considers Abraham Lincoln's love life and interrogates American mythology.
The Lost Peace' by Jay Winik. T he 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 rec ...
Before Abraham Lincoln was president, he spent many years as a prairie lawyer out in the frontier state of Illinois, where he decided to study a very old math book ...
Explore Abraham Lincoln’s Life and Legacy Through Rare Copies of Historic Books and Documents A new exhibition in New York City uses more than 200 texts and artifacts to contemplate Lincoln’s ...