NEW YORK (CNN) -- A rare Lincoln manuscript sold for $3.4 million on Thursday at Sotheby's auction house. The 1864 letter in which ... Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation had declared freedom ...

Many presidents ignored Hale's letters, but President Lincoln did not. His October 3rd, 1863 Thanksgiving proclamation read, "In the midst of a civil war of unequal magnitude and severity ...

Maura Healey, in her proclamation ... The governor then quoted Lincoln, who in proclaiming the first official Thanksgiving in ...