According to the Smithsonian, at the time of Lincoln's death, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton ... 1858 for the seventh and last of his debates with Steven Douglas. John Badman is a 1982 graduate ...

During the weeks after Lincoln’s death, as his funeral train made a circuitous journey from Washington, D.C., back to his hometown of Springfield, Illinois, perhaps a million Americans filed ...

The internet is full of claims about words famous figures spoke or wrote on their deathbeds — not all of them accurate. Evon, Dan. "Was a Mars Rover's Final Message to NASA 'My Battery Is Low ...

John Wilkes Booth shooting Abraham Lincoln, with Clara Harris and Henry Rathbone seated to the right of the president and first lady. | Heritage Images/GettyImages The Lincolns invited others, but ...

"He told Mary, 'We must be happy again.'" A lithograph depicts the death of President Abraham Lincoln, surrounded his friends and colleagues. A lithograph depicts the death of President Abraham ...