American history enthusiasts were in for a treat when artifacts relating to U.S. president Abraham Lincoln—including his personal possessions, autograph letters, rare copies of printed works, and ...

Treasured artifacts associated with President Abraham Lincoln were on the auction block Wednesday, separated from a collection that was intended to be available for public display forever but wound up ...

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 bitter ...

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 of ...

The statue of Abraham Lincoln inside Washington D.C.'s Lincoln Memorial. - Sergii Figurnyi/Shutterstock He's the man on the five dollar bill. The man who led our country through the Civil War and ...

On a February afternoon in 1864, Abraham Lincoln stood outside the White House, waiting impatiently for the presidential carriage he had summoned for a trip down Pennsylvania Avenue to Mathew Brady’s ...

This film narrates the life of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, from his humble beginnings in a poor Pioneer family in Kentucky to his rise as a prominent lawyer and ...

In our era, they might seem like performative gestures for the president. A quiet visit with the wife of a wounded soldier. A conversation with a battlefield nurse or a kitchen worker. A hand extended ...