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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. News Sports Entertainment Lifestyle Opinion ...
Originally issued by Lincoln during the Civil War in 1863, the proclamation declared enslaved people in the Confederate ...
More than 1,000 high-resolution photos connected to Abraham Lincoln are now available online. The images have previously only been seen by researchers.
Abraham Lincoln — or at least the locomotive celebrating his memory — returned to Lincoln’s hometown of Springfield, Ill., ...
The gloves were among the treasured artifacts associated with President Abraham Lincoln that were sold on Wednesday. One of two handkerchiefs Lincoln had with him on April 14, 1865, the night he ...
On June 19, 1865, over two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation freed enslaved people in Confederate states, Union troops in Galveston, Texas, announced that the enslaved ...
Abraham Lincoln: A Life in Words and Images. Posted: March 17, 2025 | Last updated: March 26, 2025. The film features Carl Sandburg discussing Abraham Lincoln, emphasizing Lincoln's enduring ...
Abraham Lincoln issued the "preliminary" Emancipation Proclamation on this day in history, Sept. 22, 1862, announcing the slaves would be freed on Jan. 1, 1863.
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.
Other popular items included a handkerchief Lincoln had on the night he was shot, which sold for $826,000, and the earliest known sample of the 16th president’s handwriting, from a notebook in ...