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 ...

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 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 ...

DODGE COUNTY (WLUK) – A Reeseville man who argued the Thirteenth Amendment regarding involuntary servitude meant he didn’t have to mow the grass in the village-owned right-of-way lost his appeal ...

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 ...

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 ...

American University Washington College of Law professor Pamela Bridgewater discussed how the constitutional history of the 13th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution can inform modern legal theory at 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 ...