A Wilton auction house is offering a collection of more than 60 lots of items pertaining to the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln.  University Archives, which offered handwritten ...

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 ...

The only photograph of Abraham Lincoln in death almost never survived. When the assassinated president was laid out in his coffin in the rotunda of New York's City Hall for a viewing attended by ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nuno-Whelan will become president of Lincoln effective May 1. He will report to Lisa Materazzo, chief marketing officer, and Andrew Frick, president of Ford Blue and Model e and interim head of ...

Former Film4 Chairman Daniel Battsek has been named as the new president of Film at Lincoln Center. Battsek, who begins his ...