The nation wanted to see him. Weeks after an assassin gunned down President Abraham Lincoln in a Washington theater, a train pulled his body across a war-pocked United States. The “Lincoln Special” ...

During one of the most personally challenging parts of the Civil War, Lincoln wrote a private “Meditation on the Divine Will.

A writing desk, a faded document, a Medal of Honor, a stained piece of fabric – together they and dozens of other historic ...

Abraham Lincoln was shot dead on this day, April 15, 1865, making this the 156th anniversary of his death. On this day, John ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a new documentary called Lover of Men: The Untold Story of Abraham Lincoln, a group of scholars argue that the 16th President ...