The only photograph of Abraham Lincoln in death almost never ... let a local photographer take a picture of the slain Lincoln. Just before the doors opened to the public, photographer Jeremiah ...

But images have been doctored for literally hundreds of years – including one of the most iconic portraits of Abraham Lincoln ... "Strict Constitution", "Free Trade" and "the Sovereignty ...

The white-leather gloves are stained with blood from the night the slain president wore them to the theater.

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 ...

This proved prophetic with the collapse of the national party systems (the Whigs disappeared altogether) as North and South evolved into separate societies—one based on free labor ... the achievements ...