The president of Ford Motor Co.'s Lincoln luxury brand will retire at the end of the month after 38 years with the company ...

Presented on behalf of the Lincoln Presidential Foundation, a nonprofit that owns a collection of Lincoln-related materials, ...

Perhaps in a sense it is. In April 1865 carpenters constructed this velvet-draped bier, known as the Lincoln catafalque, to display the murdered president’s casket in the building’s Rotunda ...

In September 1862, Lincoln announced his preliminary emancipation proclamation. The President warned that if the rebellion did not end by January 1, 1863, he would issue his presidential order of ...

Reconstruction of the South, 1857. Library of Congress. January 1: President Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that the majority of the nation's slave population ...

The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln is a widely studied topic, we preview an event hosted by the Milford Museum ...

NMAH/SI Upon hearing the name Abraham Lincoln, many images may come to mind: rail-splitter, country lawyer, young congressman, embattled president, Great Emancipator, assassin's victim ...

By Febrary 1, 1861, six more states -- Mississippi ... Kentucky, and Missouri -- President Lincoln insisted that the war was not about slavery or black rights; it was a war to preserve the ...