When he visited New York in February 1860 to deliver at the Cooper Union the most important speech of his life to date, Lincoln also went to Mathew Brady’s studio for a portrait. The resulting ...

In a studio in New York City, aspiring presidential candidate Abe Lincoln stood for a portrait to prove he wasn't, as one newspaper called him, "the leanest, lankiest, most ungainly mass of legs ...

The icon is Abraham Lincoln. The play is Robert E. Sherwood’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “Abe Lincoln in Illinois.” For his production, which runs through July 14, director David Auburn has spread ...

He muses about Abe Lincoln’s stovepipe hat ... Obama wrote an essay inspired by a portrait of an aging Lincoln that hung in ...

Treasured artifacts associated with President Abraham Lincoln have been auctioned off, separated from a collection that was ...

"He sets a tone for that room," Conley said of Honest Abe's image. "Looking into the Lincoln portrait, knowing what he means to this country, that's what that painting has meant all these years." ...

Yet the photographic portrait has long been seen as one of the most accurate ways of capturing someone's true likeness. The Library of Congress The president's eldest son, Robert Todd Lincoln ...