Booth, suffering severe pain, arrived at the house of Samuel Mudd, a physician and fellow Southern sympathizer he knew who ...

Johnson was the third vice president to become president, taking office after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in ... Taylor’s body was exhumed in 1991 and tested. Results showed ...

1865: Otto von Bismarck is elevated to the rank of Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen. On the same day, US President Abraham Lincoln dies nine hours after being shot while ttending the play “Our American ...

Next month, history buffs will have the opportunity to bid on the gloves that President Lincoln wore on the night of his ...

Lincoln, a clean-shaven 22-year-old with the barest of formal schooling, had set out in 1831 to haul freight down the ...

The crown gem of the Lincoln collection from Connecticut's Univeristy Archives is an interpositive image of President Abraham ...

On April 15, 2019, a devastating fire collapsed the roof and spire of Notre Dame Cathedral, but fire officials said they ...

“Lincoln’s Legacy: Historic Americana from the Life of Abraham Lincoln” features items from the Lincoln Presidential Foundation, dating from the president’s early life through his deat ...

Lincoln, a clean-shaven 22-year-old with the barest of formal schooling, had set out in 1831 to haul freight down the Mississippi River to New Orleans when he snagged his flatboat on the Sangamon ...

“And, sure enough, when he was president, Abraham Lincoln issued passports to blacks in the Western territory of the U.S., in direct defiance, actually, of the Dred Scott case.” The lawyer ...