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

When I was a teenager, a mostly forgotten series of novels taught me U.S. history. How would they read to me now?

The record-breaking sale comes just a few years after he paid $43.2 million for a copy of the U.S. Constitution.

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