The handbill that informed slaves in Texas of their freedom was given out June 19, 1865, more than two years after President ...

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum's special events for Juneteenth will include the display of a signed copy ...

A piece of Abraham Lincoln’s coat, which he wore when he was assassinated at Ford’s Theatre on April 14, 1865, is framed at ... but avoided doing so after it reported an uptick in fundraising ...

On April 15, 1861, after Fort Sumter fell to Confederate Army forces, President Abraham Lincoln ... Weaver would also be one of Lincoln’s last defenders. On April 14, 1865, Weaver was in Ford ...

Abraham Lincoln spent his birthday in Cincinnati ... “I never expect to be in Cincinnati again,” Lincoln said after his first trip. “I have nothing against the city, but things have so ...

National Park Service employees dust the statue of President Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln ... though it was nearly over by March 1865. Lincoln doesn’t spend much time discussing the conflict ...

What Hiser discovered was an 1865 American presentation flag that she now believes was draped over the coffin of assassinated President Abraham Lincoln ... Flag,” after its original owner ...

Greene himself described their sleeping arrangements in an 1865 letter ... to do was to tell Abraham Lincoln that the sky didn’t fall." Strozier adds: “For 10 hours after he reads of ...

In 1865, Rathbone and Harris were sitting in the presidential box at Ford’s Theatre when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated. Rathbone had been unable to save Lincoln that fateful night ...

as Secretary of War Edwin Stanton in "Manhunt" Apple TV+ In the hours following Abraham Lincoln’s assassination on the evening of April 14, 1865, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton sent a flurry of ...

It is ironic, therefore, that the nearly iconic portrait of Abraham Lincoln is a ... and dignified portraits". And after Lincoln's assassination in 1865, says Holzer, "there was an explosion ...

If Abraham Lincoln had leaned ... costume drama meets police procedural. After shooting Lincoln in the back of the head on the night of April 14, 1865, Booth leaps from the Presidential Box ...