This week marks the 160th anniversary of the passage of the 13th Amendment. Congress, dominated by free state Republicans after the secession of slaveholding states, worked for 18 months to secure ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – As people across the country celebrated Juneteenth, some question whether or not lawmakers in 1865 actually intended to abolish enslavement. Juneteenth commemorates the ...

The 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude—except as punishment for a crime. This so-called "Except Clause" has long been used to justify forced ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Noted Civil War experts Brandi C. Brimmer and Judith Giesberg are leading a discussion on the 16th president and the amendment abolishing slavery during the eighth annual Frank and ...

On this day 160 years ago, the United States of America ratified the 13th Amendment of the Constitution, immortalizing a self-evident principle that stirred the hearts of patriots and forever changed ...

NEW YORK — A crowd, most of them employees with ID badges around their necks, gathered in the back of the room of Sotheby’s for the last two items of Thursday’s morning auction. They weren’t there to ...

Two of the most pivotal documents President Abraham Lincoln ever signed are coming up for sale. Rare copies of both the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment will be auctioned off in ...

American history buffs, this is the auction for you. A rare copy of the Thirteenth Amendment and the Emancipation Proclamation will be going under the hammer at Sotheby’s later this month, as a part ...

Ken Griffin, known for purchasing a Stegosaurus skeleton and a rare copy of the U.S. Constitution, recently acquired Abraham Lincoln's handwritten copy of the 13th Amendment. Griffin purchased the ...

Billionaire Ken Griffin just bought two of the most significant documents ever signed by President Abraham Lincoln, adding to his trove of Americana. Griffin reset the record for any document signed ...