“He was crucified for us!” an elderly African American from York, Pennsylvania, told a newspaper that Easter weekend.

On April 15, 1865, the Civil War had just ended, the 16th U.S. president had been killed. How would Americans respond?

A pair of blood-stained white kid-leather gloves carried by the president during the night of his assassination on April 14, ...

US President Abraham Lincoln was shot in the head by stage actor John Wilkes Booth while attending a play at Ford’s Theatre ...

The two greatest presidents died in April, 80 years apart, one 80 years ago. Abraham Lincoln, 56, was slain while enjoying a comedy at Ford’s Theatre. After 12 years of a crisis presidency, Franklin ...

A pair of gloves carried by President Lincoln on the night he was shot could sell for over $1 million. Read about the Chicago ...

Secretary of State William Seward was attacked but ultimately survived. Image via Utah Digital Newspapers, the University of ...

Armistice Day in 1930 brought a massive crowd to downtown Spokane to see the unveiling of the Abraham Lincoln statue at Main ...

The Statehouse Museum Shop, on the ground floor of the Ohio Statehouse, offers copies of Lincoln’s Gettysburg and Second Inaugural Addresses, small statues of President Lincoln and Lincoln’s hat and a ...

Patrons of the annual Lincoln Days Civil War Reenactment will commemorate those historic events in a slightly different fashion this year. The Pike County chapter of the Looking for Lincoln ...