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More than 1,000 high-resolution photos connected to Abraham Lincoln are now available online. The images have previously only been seen by researchers.
The blood-stained leather gloves that were in Lincoln’s pocket the night he was assassinated were among the 144 items up for bid, 136 of which sold. AP Its website said proceeds from the auction ...
Abraham Lincoln artifacts that were once in a museum are going up for auction The Lincoln Presidential Foundation is in debt, so it is putting more than 100 of its artifacts up for auction. The ...
President Abraham Lincoln was shot on April 14, 1865, at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., while he was attending a performance of "Our American Cousin," according to the Library of Congress.
A previously unknown and unpublished Civil War-era letter from President Abraham Lincoln has been acquired by the Raab Collection — and is being sold for $85,000. Here are details.
Items on Abraham Lincoln’s body the night he was assassinated, his earliest known handwriting and other extraordinary relics from his life are being auctioned this week in a sale that drew ...
When President Abraham Lincoln and his wife, Mary — in 1863, while in the White House — received a live turkey for the family to feast on at Christmas, their precocious eight-year-old son Tad ...
HEALTH Presidential depression and Abraham Lincoln’s struggle with ‘melancholy’: What historians know A mental health expert reflects on how the 16th president lived with severe depression ...
Abraham Lincoln embodied everything that’s great about America: He was courageous, compassionate, wise and quite likely gay. “Lover of Men” (in theaters now) is a revealing new documentary ...
Debates over Abraham Lincoln's private life have lingered for years, but the upcoming documentary Lover of Men, hitting theaters Sept. 6, takes the conversation to new heights.
The white leather gloves are stained with blood from the night Abraham Lincoln wore them to the theater. Even on a celebratory night marking an end to war, Lincoln disliked donning the flashy bit ...
In 1855, Abraham Lincoln wrote a letter to his best friend, Joshua Speed. Speed was from a wealthy, slave-owning Kentucky family; Lincoln believed slavery was wrong. You are mistaken about this ...