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 ...

Abraham Lincoln made a stopover at Cincinnati on his way to his inauguration in 1861, just as the nation was falling apart.

President Abraham Lincoln died in Washington ... its aftermath are published on the Ford's Theatre website. "I saw a flash of the pistol in the right back of the box. As the person jumped over ...

To British eyes, it will seem like a painfully slow account of the 12-day search for John Wilkes Booth, the man who assassinated Abraham Lincoln ... narrative frequently flashes to the past.