Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – As people across the country celebrated Juneteenth, some question whether or not lawmakers in 1865 ...

A handwritten copy of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution signed by Abraham Lincoln has sold at auction for a record $13.7 million. It’s the highest price ever paid for a document signed by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Palm Beach land baron Ken Griffin likes old things. Like dinosaur bones. Last year, he paid $44.6 million for a late Jurassic-era ...

Colorado voters have approved an amendment to their state's constitution that completely abolishes slavery — by stripping out language that still exists in the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ...

Billionaire Ken Griffin bought original copies of the 13th Amendment and the Emancipation Proclamation, both signed by former President Abraham Lincoln, at a New York Sotheby’s auction. The hedge fund ...

Foreword / Joan L. Flinspach -- Introduction / Harold Holzer -- Slavery during Lincoln's lifetime / James Oliver Horton -- Lincoln's critique of Dred Scott as a vindication of the Founding / Joseph R.

Sold at the Fine Books and Manuscripts event in New York, each copy plays a crucial role in American’s history. The Thirteenth Amendment enshrined the abolition of slavery into law; the copy up for ...

Prologue : the bread pill -- The antebellum context. The abolition movement and the problem of the Constitution ; Antislavery politics and the problem of the constitution ; The Republican Party, ...