Ken Griffin bought an Abraham Lincoln–signed copy of the 13th Amendment, for $13.7 million, and the Emancipation Proclamation ...

Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation... Note to Kevin O'Brien regarding executive orders ("Check Obama's hubris and the nation's slide into tribalism," Forum, Nov. 26).

MOUNT PULASKI — Visitors and tourists in Logan County soon will have additional help in finding historical sites and tourist attractions in Mount Pulaski, Atlanta and Elkhart.

President Lincoln did not defend (nor renounce) any doctrine that the executive could ignore court orders ruling that his suspension of habeas corpus was unlawful. That question, he left to the ages.

The Trump administration showed continued support for historically black colleges and universities by signing another executive order this week. The order states that HBCUs, quote: "Remain ...

Abraham Lincoln used an executive order—the Emancipation Proclamation—to address slavery during the Civil War. Franklin Delano Roosevelt issued an executive order to integrate the shipyards and other ...

Order for Draft of 500,000. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, Feb. 1, 1864. Ordered, that a draft for five hundred thousand men, to serve for three years or during the War, be made on the 10th day of ...

Worthington, director of the museum’s Papers of Abraham Lincoln, differentiated the letter from ones Lincoln wrote to friends and acquaintances, in which he signed his first name as simply “Abe.” In ...

Ongoing construction on Bryan Street has caused corner pub and local favorite Abe's on Lincoln to close its doors since Sept. 25. A seven-story Tempo by Hilton hotel is planned for the building ...

A recently discovered letter written by President Abraham Lincoln that offers a glimpse into his thinking during the early part of the Civil War sold this week in Pennsylvania for $85,000 ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The document in which Abraham Lincoln set in motion the Union's military response to the launch of the U.S. Civil War is now among Illinois' prized papers of the 16th ...