When President Abraham Lincoln and his wife, Mary — in 1863, while in the White House — received a live turkey for the family to feast on at Christmas, their precocious eight-year-old son Tad ...

The auction — representing 10 percent of the Lincoln Presidential Foundation’s collection — includes the gloves Lincoln ...

He is perhaps best known for his honesty — but a lesser-known fact about Abraham ... to the book "Lincoln’s Melancholy" by Joshua Wolf Shenk. Lincoln is said to have had a family history ...

The Lincoln Club of Delaware hosted this event. This lesson focuses on the funeral of Abraham Lincoln and its ... Who was the only family member to ride the “Lincoln Special?” ...

The award-winning Beninese artist unveils a work dedicated to the president’s “generosity of heart” The installation Create to Free Yourselves: Abraham ... what the Lincoln family means ...

More than 1,000 high-resolution photos connected to Abraham ... Lincoln’s assassination in 1865, his funeral and the execution of the conspirators who plotted his death. Are there other Lincoln ...

In 1855, Abraham Lincoln wrote a letter to his best friend, Joshua Speed. Speed was from a wealthy, slave-owning Kentucky family; Lincoln believed slavery was wrong. You are mistaken about this ...

For media-savvy Lincoln this must have been a choice. Did photos of his family not fit in with how he wanted the world to see him? Marcus has given young readers an Abraham Lincoln for the 21st ...

Susannah J. Ural holds the Williams Chair in Abraham Lincoln and Civil War Studies at Mississippi State University. A military historian by training, she specializes in 19th century America, with an ...