Last month, as the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum and Library appears to be considering selling Abraham Lincoln's iconic stovepipe hat, we learned something unsettling: experts could not ...

No one has been able to refute the hat's authenticity with certainty. Museum officials say the hat belonged to Lincoln. The heirloom is valued at $6.5 million.

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum is re-displaying a stovepipe hat synonymous with the country’s 16th president, amid renewed speculation about its authenticity.

Officials at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois recently admitted that they can't prove how a 19th-century farmer obtained the hat worth $6.5million.

Even in our fractious, ill-tempered times, we can all come together to agree on this: $6 million is a lot to pay for a hat. That’s true even if the hat is a stovepipe model that once belonged to ...

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum may lose a few of the famed president's key artifacts -- such as a stovepipe hat Lincoln purportedly wore and the bloodstained gloves he wore on ...

A study has found no evidence to corroborate that a beaver-skin stovepipe hat — for years a centerpiece of Illinois’ Abraham Lincoln museum — ever actually belonged to the 16th U.S ...

The story of the hat was first written in August 1958, when Carbondale resident Clara Waller signed an affidavit in which she said her father-in-law, William Waller, obtained the hat from Lincoln ...

A WBEZ report says findings from the study include that the hat didn't appear to be Lincoln's size. The study also found the hat was at one point sold in the 1950s to a antique shop for just $1 ...

Abraham Lincoln's Stovepipe Hat is Wrong Size, No Evidence It Actually Belonged to Him, 16-Month State Study Finds Published Dec 23, 2019 at 9:03 PM EST Updated Dec 23, 2019 at 10:41 PM EST ...

James M. Cornelius, curator of the Lincoln Collection at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield shows the Abraham Lincoln hat in the museum’s collection in 2012.

With permission from Mary Lincoln, the department gave the hat to the Patent Office, which, in 1867, transferred it to the Smithsonian Institution. Joseph Henry, the Secretary of the Smithsonian, ...