Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, typically takes the first or second spot. In honor of Lincoln’s 216th birthday, February 12, 1809, here are some facts that you may not ...

including some of Lincoln’s coffin when it was unearthed during a construction project in 1901. A black and white photograph of President Abraham Lincoln, from early 1864. The “Picturing ...

The anonymous “Paddle 1231” won most of the priciest artifacts, including a lock of Lincoln’s hair and a pair of ...

From acclaimed Abraham ... By some accounts, Lincoln composed the entire message in bed. The remarks at Gettysburg had been, in Lincoln’s folksy description, “short, short, short”: barely ...

For at the foot of the table; standing solitary, his hat in his hand, his tall form towering above the committee members, Abraham Lincoln stood. Had he come by some incantation, thus appearing of ...

On Tuesday — the day before we mark his birthday — is the 164th anniversary of Abraham ... life some rain must fall,/Some days must be dark and dreary.” Twenty years later, Lincoln alluded ...

More than 1,000 high-resolution photos connected to Abraham Lincoln are now available ... According to the library, 129 of the photos are of Lincoln. Some are from his time in Springfield ...