Less than a year after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, while our nascent nation was still in ...

The president was shot while he was attending a performance of "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theatre in D.C. During one of the funniest lines of the play, Booth entered the presidential box — and ...

A previously unknown and unpublished letter from President Abraham Lincoln has been recovered for the first time. The Civil War-era letter, which was part of a private collection for over a century, ...

According to Glinski, Mordecai Lincoln Sr., born in 1657, was a son of Samuel. A blacksmith, he purchased land and rights to ...

Read on to know the Quote of the Day by Abraham Lincoln, the quote’s meaning, Who is Abraham Lincoln, why he is famous, ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Author Tom Wheeler provided a brief history of the telegraph. The Virginia Center for Civil War Studies at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg hosted this ...

The foundation that supports the library is struggling to pay off a 2007 loan. The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum may lose a few of the famed president's key artifacts -- such as a ...

Before Trump, President Lincoln’s administration also remodeled the White House, at the behest of First Lady Mary Lincoln.

In a new documentary called Lover of Men: The Untold Story of Abraham Lincoln, a group of scholars argue that the 16th President of the United States had sexual relationships with multiple men during ...

Biden’s grandfather, Moses J. Robinette, was charged with attempted murder after the fight in the Army of the Potomac’s winter camp in Virginia on March 21, 1864, according to National Archives ...