A rare broadside of the "Declaration of Independence, July 1776, on view at Seth Kaller Inc., Historic Documents & Legacy ...

Billionaire developer and Palm Beach resident Ken Griffin's most recent purchases include rare copies of the Emancipation ...

Griffin paid a record $13.7M for the 13th Amendment and $4.4 million for the Emancipation Proclamation. Both documents were ...

A copy of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by Lincoln -- the highlight of a fascinating catalog -- sold at a Sotheby’s auction for $12 million.

Escambia County in Florida is moving to remove all books labeled as "pornographic" or "age-inappropriate" from school libraries without further review, reflecting a broader trend in US education.

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US Supreme Court Justices Disclose Income From Book Deals and Teaching (Corrects publication month of Jackson's memoir in paragraph 6 to September instead of August) By John Kruzel and Andrew ...

WASHINGTON, Wednesday, June 15. The steamboats, barges and tugboat in the employ of the Sanitary Commission, that were recently stationed at White House Landing, left Fortress Monroe this morning ...

Two era-defining documents that ended slavery and reshaped American history are to be auctioned. The Thirteenth Amendment (estimated at $8–12 million) and the Emancipation Proclamation (estimated at ...