This week in history: Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment, and the 1960 Greensboro lunch counter sit-in begins. Also: Harry Truman proclaims February 1 as National Freedom Day; an iceberg is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(WDBJ) - The 13th amendment was ratified in America after Georgia became the 27th state to endorse the change. This very amendment abolished slavery across the country. Gray Media, parent company of ...

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 ...

Prologue : the bread pill -- The antebellum context. The abolition movement and the problem of the Constitution ; Antislavery politics and the problem of the constitution ; The Republican Party, ...

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 ...