BOSTON -- A letter written by President Lincoln's assassin two months before the 1865 slaying sold at auction Sunday for a record $68,000. In the letter, dated Feb. 9, 1865, John Wilkes Booth asks ...

A piece of Canadian history goes on the auction block at Christie's in New York this Thursday: letters about the British victory over the French during the 1759 battle on the Plains of Abraham.

On Dec. 10, Sotheby's is auctioning off a souvenir copy of the Emancipation Proclamation signed by Abraham Lincoln. There are 48 known to have been made, and at least 25 survive, some in private ...

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 ...