Originally issued by Lincoln during the Civil War in 1863, the proclamation declared enslaved people in the Confederate ...

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

In a June 27 ruling, the Supreme Court granted the Trump administration’s request to partially halt nationwide injunctions ...

But this modern understanding of “birthright citizenship” isn’t what the framers of the Fourteenth Amendment intended — and ...

The hedge-fund billionaire also paid a record $43.2 million for a copy of the U.S. Constitution four years ago.

A deadlock over the distribution of power threatened to derail the creation of a constitution for the newly formed United States. STANDING UNITEDGeorge Washington, standing at right, presides over the ...