It all highlights former President Abraham Lincoln. The items were found about a year ago after a volunteer stumbled upon ...

Abraham Lincoln was met with a crowd of thousands when his whistle-stop tour arrived in Columbus, Ohio in 1861. It was during ...

Learn about Abraham Lincoln (sixteenth president, 1861–1865) through museum art and artifacts from across the Smithsonian. The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery collection reflects many faces of ...

The only photograph of Abraham Lincoln ... a six-year-old, and Lincoln teased him about stealing some figs off a White House tree. His father took him to see Lincoln's body at the Rotunda in ...

One hundred sixty years ago this week, the nation was in mourning following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

A massive trove of Abraham Lincoln’s historical writings, keepsakes and personal effects is heading to the auction block in ...

The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln is a widely studied topic, we preview an event hosted by the Milford Museum that focuses on his final hours.

Major Acts In practical terms, the achievements of Abraham Lincoln are mammoth, yet simple to describe: he confronted the secession of the South and the dissolution of the Union with all the political ...

(WXYZ) — President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated while sitting in a chair at Ford's Theater on April 14, 1865. He died a day later on April 15. That rocking ...

NMAH/SI Upon hearing the name Abraham Lincoln ... curator of maritime history at the National Museum of American History (NMAH), Lincoln's eminence and the historical rarity of his patent make ...