The president’s iconic beard was a product of the anxious new realities of the photographic age.

The tiny central Illinois village, where Lincoln accidentally spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, perhaps did as much to prepare him to be the Union-saving 16th president as any other aspect of his ...

One can’t read Paul Wolfowitz’s excellent “Reflections on Lincoln 160 Years After His Murder” (op ... or grounding in reality, having had Abraham Lincoln as president reminds us that ...

When Abraham Lincoln took the oath of office for his second term as president, the United States was divided as never before ...

Twelve days after President Lincoln's historic visit to Richmond, his assassin's journey ended in the small town of Port ...

Armistice Day in 1930 brought a massive crowd to downtown Spokane to see the unveiling of the Abraham Lincoln statue at Main ... Union soldiers from the Civil War, while some were still alive.

Looking at a picture of Abraham ... Three days before Bedell wrote her letter, a group of “True Republicans” writing from New York City tendered the same suggestion to Lincoln. After careful ...

(AP) — Before his famous debates, before the Civil War rent the nation, before he helped end slavery and before his tragic assassination, Abraham ... withered shortly after Lincoln’s 1837 ...

before the Civil War rent the nation, before he helped end slavery and before his tragic assassination, Abraham Lincoln had New Salem. The tiny central Illinois village, where Lincoln accidentally ...