For all his modesty and wartime preoccupation, the 16th president was one of the most photographed men of his time, with a ...

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

Abraham Lincoln loved to eat—and he also wasn’t afraid to throw on an apron and cook. Here are a few of the foods he enjoyed ...

Major Acts In practical terms, the achievements of Abraham Lincoln are mammoth, yet simple to describe: he confronted the secession of the South and the dissolution of the Union with all the political ...

A 1915 silent film about Abraham Lincoln was thought to be lost forever before being found in a warehouse on New York's Long ...

“The prospect of success was much brighter than before, for Abraham Lincoln had become a very popular ... and having left the telegraphic office after learning the result of the first two ...

National Park Service employees dust the statue of President Abraham ... before the war began — as listeners four years prior understood was likely. As he spoke when he first became president ...

Considered one of the nation's greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln remains a tragic historical figure, gunned down by an assassin just days after winning ... slave states. Before his inauguration ...

Shortly after, Abraham settled in New Salem ... the Radical Republicans who insisted on punishing the Confederacy. Before Lincoln could guide Reconstruction, an assassin cut his life short.