The white kid gloves that the former president was wearing the night that he was assassinated will be part of the "Lincoln's ...

The tiny central Illinois village, where Lincoln accidentally spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, perhaps did as much to ...

The Smithsonian, which oversees numerous museums and cultural centers, including the Air and Space Museum and the National ...

I’ve been a supporter of passenger rail for most of my life, including 32 years as an Amtrak employee. Outside of North ...

Abraham Lincoln changed the course of history not through brute assertion of power but by wrestling with its limits.

Only one person in U.S. history has defied the two-term example set by the first president, George Washington.

Abraham Lincoln arrived at the New Salem grist mill along the Sangamon River aboard a flatboat that was sinking. Lincoln had been hired by a man named Denton Offutt to deliver the boat cargo to New ...

She would be present in 1911 when a ceremony was held to commemorate that day President Abraham Lincoln was there. Lincoln, according to historian Charles Bracelen Flood, knew exactly why he had ...