A new exhibition—“Abraham Lincoln: His Life in Print”—opened this week at the Grolier Club in New York City. Using books, documents and ephemera, the show follows Lincoln’s rise from a ...

The president’s iconic beard was a product of the anxious new realities of the photographic age.

The only photograph of Abraham Lincoln in death almost never survived ... The war secretary kept one print to himself, however — "He did not have the heart to destroy it," Life magazine reported ...

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 ...

This week in history, on April 14, 1865, upon hearing the word “sockdologizing,” President Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed by John Wilkes Booth inside Ford’s Theater in Washington, ...

NMAH/SI Upon hearing the name Abraham Lincoln, many images may come to mind: rail-splitter, country lawyer, young congressman, embattled president, Great Emancipator, assassin's victim ...

Abraham Lincoln, the greatest American president ... Lincoln lived in an age of print. Oratory was important political entertainment; but with no broadcasting, his words reached large audiences ...