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It’s no understatement to say Abraham Lincoln has loomed large in the mythology of the United States ever since he was president. For as long as I can remember he has represented truth, honesty ...
What Lincoln’s thoughts on democracy can teach us during troubled times In ‘Our Ancient Faith,’ historian Allen C. Guelzo reflects on the 16th president’s views on liberty, law, economics ...
A wax sculpture of Abraham Lincoln sitting outside of a Washington D.C. elementary school is headless after it began melting during a punishing heatwave that had temperatures in the 100s.
The auction — representing 10 percent of the Lincoln Presidential Foundation’s collection — includes the gloves Lincoln carried the night of his assassination.
The lead .41-calibre bullet with which John Wilkes Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln on the night of April 14, 1865, was the most lethal gunshot in American history. Only five days earlier, the ...
The blood-stained leather gloves that were in Lincoln’s pocket the night he was assassinated were among the 144 items up for bid, 136 of which sold.
The rare nine-foot painting of Abraham Lincoln, which hung for decades in a New Jersey municipal building, is on loan to D.C.'s National Portrait Gallery.
Was Abraham Lincoln the original log cabin Republican? We hear tell that a new documentary on Honest Abe posits that the 16th president was gay. Promo copy for the new project, “Lover of Men ...
Lincoln Said, 'It's Not the Years in Your Life that Count; It's the Life in Your Years'? Famous adages are often attributed to famous people — often incorrectly.
Abraham Lincoln embodied everything that’s great about America: He was courageous, compassionate, wise and quite likely gay. “Lover of Men” (in theaters now) is a revealing new documentary ...
Keith Olbermann has sparked outrage by saying "there's always the hope" that former President Donald Trump will be tweeted worse than Abraham Lincoln, who was assassinated.
Two front-row balcony tickets from the night President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth inside Ford's Theatre have been sold at auction for a cool $262,500.