On April 27th, 1865, Abraham Lincoln paid his last visit to Buffalo. And on April 14th, 1865 he was shot dead in Washington DC. Something about these numbers doesn’t seem to add up right. Stay ...

The handwritten notification of President Abraham Lincoln's death is being offered for sale by a Philadelphia documents dealer. Nathan Raab, president of the Raab Collection, says the telegram was ...

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Whether you’re a Civil War buff or get all your learnin’ from Drunk History, HistoryMiami keeps churning out lively events that tempt locals to dive into the past. For the 150th anniversary of Abraham ...

The Salt Lake Daily Telegraph, April 16, 1865. Note: Secretary of State William Seward was attacked but ultimately survived. Image via Utah Digital Newspapers, the University of Utah A wave of ...

Plotz got to see Lincoln's writing on the document during a recent tour of the National Archives vaults (hence the post.) As Plotz writes: I guess it's not surprising that the author of the Gettysburg ...

April 14, 1865, got off to a far better start than most days in the White House Mary Todd Lincoln. Sadly, it would be an all-too-brief moment of happiness before the day ended in unimaginable fashion, ...