Next month, history buffs will have the opportunity to bid on the gloves that President Lincoln wore on the night of his ...

A massive trove of Abraham Lincoln’s historical writings, keepsakes and personal effects is heading to the auction block in ...

Abraham Lincoln was our tallest president. At 6-foot-4 ... he dressed for the theater in a silk top hat, size 7-1/8, from the Washington hatmaker J. Y. Davis, to which he had added a black ...

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 ...

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 ...

A licensed embalmer Lee Eutsey shared his findings about the surgeons who conducted Lincoln's autopsy and the mystery of the ...

Moorhead High School students read from a diary written by Smith Stimmel, a Fargo man who served as one of President ...

Even 160 years after his assassination, President Lincoln’s death continues to be a subject of fascination for historians—both academic and amateur. Today marks the anniversary of Lincoln’s ...